Unique & Unpublished Maximianus Aureus

Triton XX, Lot: 852. Estimate $15000. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maximianus. As Senior Augustus (1st reign), AD 305-307. AV Aureus (20mm, 5.33 g, 12h). Alexandria mint, 3rd officina. Struck circa AD 1 May 305–25 July 306. MAXIMIAN VS BAE AVG, laureate bust right, wearing imperial mantle, holding olive branch with right hand and mappa with left / HERCVLIO VICTORI, Hercules standing facing, head left, wearing lion skin draped over his left shoulder, holding club upright on ground with right hand and golden apples of the Hesperides in left hand; Γ//ALE. RIC VI –; Depeyrot –; Calicó –; Biaggi –; apparently unpublished. VF, slightly wavy flan with several bumps and scuffs, a few light scratches. Unique and unpublished.

RIC lists an aureus for Diocletian (RIC VI 51, Group II, 1 May 305–25 July 306) with the same obverse legend formula (DIOCLETIANVS BAE AVG), and a similar obverse bust type (laureate bust right, wearing imperial mantle, fingers of right hand raised), and a IOVI CONSERVATORI reverse type (Jupiter standing facing, head left, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, holding globe and scepter), with ∆//ALE for the officina and mintmark. Most likely, this coin is the companion issue for Maximianus.