Triton XXI, Lot: 838. Estimate $10000. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diocletian. AD 284-305. AV Aureus (19mm, 5.35 g, 5h). Consular issue. Antioch mint. Struck AD 296-297. DIOCLETIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate head right / Diocletian, laureate and in cosular robes, standing left, holding globus in outstretched right hand, scepter in left; SMAΣ*. RIC VI 13; Lukanc 15 (p. 154, 11 var. [consular date – same obv. die]); Pink, Goldprägung, p. 49; Depeyrot 12/1; Calicó 4440; Biaggi 1699. Choice EF, lustrous fields. High relief portrait.

Ex George W. La Borde Collection of Roman Aurei (Part I, Numismatica Ars Classica 91 (23 May 2016), lot 56; Heritage 3015 (7 September 2011), lot 23374; Tkalec (8 September 2008), lot 293.