Triton XX, Lot: 863. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Licinius I. AD 308-324. AV Aureus (20mm, 5.26 g, 12h). Decennalia issue. Nicomedia mint, 4th officina. Struck AD 317-318. LICINIVS AVGVSTVS, laureate head right / IOVI CONS LICINI AVG, Jupiter standing facing on platform, head left, holding scepter with left hand and crowning Victory on globe in right hand; at feet to left, eagle, standing left, head right with wreath in beak; platform inscribed with SIC X/SIC XX in two lines; SMN∆ in exergue. RIC VII 18 corr. (obv. legend); Depeyrot 25; Calicó 5103 var. (officina); Biaggi –. VF, a couple of edge marks. Very rare.

The votive augmentations, later to appear with more regularity during the issues of the family of Constantine, refer to the hope that the emperor would enjoy a prosperous 10 years of rule, a decennalia, followed by that of 20 years, a vicennalia.