CNG 90, Lot: 1698. Estimate $4000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Diocletian. AD 284-305. AV Aureus (19mm, 5.21 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 287 or AD 293-294. DIOCLETIA NVS P F AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / IOVI CONS ERVATORI, Jupiter seated left, holding thunderbolt and scepter; to left, eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in its beak; PR. RIC V 142a corr. (bust type); Depeyrot 5B/2; Calicó 4508 corr. (same). Good VF, a few light marks, edge marks from prior mounting.