CNG 90, Lot: 1699. Estimate $750. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diocletian. AD 284-305. Æ Fraction (16mm, 1.08 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 294-295. DIOCLETI ANVS AVG, laureate head right / VTILITA S PVBLICA, Utilitas standing facing, head left, hands in drapery. RIC VI 48 var. (bust type, officina mark on rev.). Good VF, dark green-brown patina, minor roughness. Unpublished variety of an extremely rare issue.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 15 (18 May 1999), lot 460.

This unpublished fraction is Diocletian’s companion issue to the unmarked pieces of Maximianus, RIC VI 62.