Sale: Nomos 3 & 4, Lot: 212. Estimate CHF1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 May 2011.  Sold For CHF1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Maximianus. First reign, AD 286-305. Argenteus (Silver, 3.29 g 6), Siscia, c. 295. MAXIMIANVS AVG Laureate head of Maximianus to right. Rev. PROVIDENTIA AVGG / *SIS Four Tetrarchs sacrificing over a tripod altar before the gate of a camp with seven towers. Apparently unpublished for Maximianus, but cf. RIC 54 (Constantius and Galerius Caesares). Extremely rare. Lustrous, bright and well-struck. Virtually as struck.

From the Tetrarchy Collection, New York.