448, Lot: 527. Estimate $100. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diocletian. AD 284-305. Terracotta counterfeiter’s mold of Thessalonica (32mm, 6.11 g). Part of a mold for casting coins, impressed with a coin on both sides; on one side a laureate head of Diocletian right, on the opposite a Thessalonica mint reverse showing Venus standing left, holding up an apple and raising drapery over shoulder; *|B//•SM•TS•. Mostly intact.