CNG 99, Lot: 716. Estimate $10000. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Galerius. As Caesar, AD 293-305. AV Aureus (20mm, 5.35 g, 6h). Cyzicus mint. Struck AD 293. MAXIMIANVS NOB CAES, laureate head right / CONCORDI-AE AVGG NN, Diocletian and Maximianus seated left, each holding globe and parazonium; Victory flying above, crowning them. RIC VI –; Depeyrot 13/5 (same dies as illustration); Calicó –; Biaggi –. EF. Extremely rare.

An attractive piece with a reverse intended for the Augusti (see Calicó 4815 and Depeyrot 13/6 for a mule with an obverse of Constantius I as Caesar). Depeyrot cited only two for Galerius and one for Constantius, compared to forty-nine for Diocletian and fifty-one for Maximianus.