454, Lot: 410. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diocletian. AD 284-305. AV Aureus (19mm, 5.27 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 294. DIOCLETI ANVS P F AVG, laureate head right / IOVI C ON S ERVATORI, PR in exergue, Jupiter seated left, holding thunderbolt and scepter; at feet to left, eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in beak. RIC V 142a var. (bust type); Depeyrot 6/4; Calicó 4510; Biaggi 1723; Jameson –; Mazzini 266. Toned, surface marks and a few deposits, edge test on obverse. Near VF.