Nomos 39

Diocletian, 284-305. Aureus (Gold, 19 mm, 5.52 g, 6 h), on the heavy standard, Treveri, 302. DIOCLE-TIANVS AVG Laureate and lightly bearded bare bust of Diocletian to right. Rev. IOVI CON-SERVATORI / TR Laureate and bearded head of Jupiter to right. A. Baldwin Brett, "The aurei and solidi of the Arras hoard", NC 1930, 88.7 (this coin). Beaurains ('Arras') 252 (this coin). Biaggi 1725 (this coin). Calicó 4513 (R4, this coin illustrated). Depeyrot 7A/3. K. Pink, "Die Goldprägung des Diocletianus und seiner Mitregenten", NZ 24, 1931, p. 53 (this coin cited). RIC VI p. 170, 54 (c. 295-305). Extremely rare and undoubtedly the best known. Beautifully toned and sharply struck. Virtually as struck.

From The Dr. Ivo Lukanc Collection of the Gold Coinage of Diocletian, and the collection of G. McClendon (1921-1986), Christie's, New York, 12 June 1993, 195, ex Bank Leu 22, 8 May 1979, 365, previously in the collections of Leo Biaggi de Blasys (1906 - 1979), and that of M. Roger Kohn, Paris (1883-1939) who acquired it from the stock of J. Hirsch, Ars Classica XII, 18 October 1926, 3013, and from the Arras/Beaurains Hoard of 1922.