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Auction 99  29 May 2017
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Lot 39

Estimate: 18 000 CHF
Price realized: 16 000 CHF
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The Roman Empire

Diocletian, 284 – 305. Aureus, Antiochia circa 286, AV 6.33 g. IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG Laureate and cuirassed bust l., holding eagle-tipped sceptre and wearing imperial mantle. Rev. IOVI CONSERVATO – RI AVGG The Emperor, standing l. in military attire and holding sceptre, receives from Jupiter, also holding sceptre, a Victory on globe; in lower centre field, N and, in exergue, SMA. C –. RIC –. Calicó –. Lukanc p. 152, 5 (this reverse die).
Apparently only the second specimen known and the only one in private hands.
Two minor edge marks, otherwise virtually as struck and almost Fdc

Provenance
Sold Harlan J. Berk, buy-or-bid auction 96, Chicago, 18 June 1997, lot 14.
Numismatica Ars Classica, Zürich, auction 27, 12 May 2004, lot 500.
Sold by Gemini I, New York, 11-12 January 2005, lot 443.



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