Sale: Nomos 9, Lot: 301. Estimate CHF15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 20 October 2014.  Sold For CHF17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maximianus, first reign, 286-305. Aureus (Gold, 18mm, 5.38 g 11), Antioch, 293-295. MAXIMIANVS AVGVSTVS Laureate head of Maximianus to right. Rev. CONSVL IIII P P PRO COS / SMAΖ✴ Emperor, laureate and togate, standing left, holding globe in his right hand and short scepter in his left. Biaggi 1778. Calicó 4625. Depeyrot 90/2. RIC V, 611 = RIC VI, 4. A superb, lustrous example, beautifully struck. Virtually as struck.

From the Canonicus collection, ex Nomos 6, 8 May 2012, 197, Stack’s 10 January 2011, 151 and Classical Numismatic Review XXII, Winter/Spring 1997, 43.