Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 138 18-19 May 2023
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Diocletian, 284 – 305.
Aureus, Siscia 286, AV 5.36 g. IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG Laureate and cuirassed half bust l., with r. hand raised. Rev. IOVI CO – NSERVATORI Jupiter standing facing, head r., holding sceptre and thunderbolt. C –. RIC –, cf. 248. Depeyrot 1/5 (these dies). Kent-Hirmer pl. 151, 581 (these dies). Lukanc p. 229, 2. Calicó 4498 (these dies).
Extremely rare, only very few specimens known. A magnificent and unusual portrait
of fine style struck in high relief. A small contact mark on edge and Jupiter's thigh
and on the edge at one o'clock, otherwise virtually as struck and almost Fdc
Ex M&M 61, 1982, 476; Leu 97, 2006, Collection of a European Scholar lately Deceased, 83 and Ira & Larry Goldberg 41, 2007, 2930 sales.
Aureus, Siscia 286, AV 5.36 g. IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG Laureate and cuirassed half bust l., with r. hand raised. Rev. IOVI CO – NSERVATORI Jupiter standing facing, head r., holding sceptre and thunderbolt. C –. RIC –, cf. 248. Depeyrot 1/5 (these dies). Kent-Hirmer pl. 151, 581 (these dies). Lukanc p. 229, 2. Calicó 4498 (these dies).
Extremely rare, only very few specimens known. A magnificent and unusual portrait
of fine style struck in high relief. A small contact mark on edge and Jupiter's thigh
and on the edge at one o'clock, otherwise virtually as struck and almost Fdc
Ex M&M 61, 1982, 476; Leu 97, 2006, Collection of a European Scholar lately Deceased, 83 and Ira & Larry Goldberg 41, 2007, 2930 sales.