CNG 90, Lot: 1700. Estimate $500. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diocletian & Maximianus. AD 286-305. AR Quinarius (15mm, 1.56 g, 12h). Rome mint. DIOC LE TIANVS AVG, laureate and draped bust left, holding scepter / MAXIMIANVS AVG, head right, wearing lion skin headdress. RIC VI -; King 25; Gnecchi III, p. 80, 8, pl. 158, 18-19. VF, dark gray and green patina, some roughness. Extremely rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica I (19 May 1999), lot 2327.