Pedigreed to 1908

Triton XX, Lot: 846. Estimate $20000. Sold for $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diocletian. AD 284-305. AV Aureus (20mm, 5.44 g, 6h). Cyzicus mint. Struck AD 293. DIOCLETIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate head right / CONCORDI–AE AVGG NN, Diocletian and Maximianus seated left on curule chairs, each holding globe in right hand and parazonium in left, being crowned by Victory. RIC V 313 (Antioch); Depeyrot 13/1; Calicó 4430; Biaggi 1695 (this coin). EF, lustrous, graffito in field on reverse.

From the Continental Collection. Ex Rauch 51 (20 September 1993), lot 462; Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 1695; “Universal Collection” [Braun] (A. Hess 202, 28 October 1930), lot 2787; J. Hirsch XXIX (9 November 1910), lot 1298; H. Osborne O’Hagan Collection (Part III, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 July 1908), lot 688.