From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008. Lot # 496 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$10000 / Price Realized: US$6000 Diocletian. Gold aureus Diocletian. (284-305 AD). Gold aureus (5.34 gm). Antioch, 296-297 AD. DIOCLETIANVS—AVGVSTVS, head laureate right / CONSVL VI P P PROCOS, Diocletian, laureate and wearing consular toga, standing left, holding globe and short scepter, SMAZ* in exergue. Commemorating Diocletian’s sixth consulship of 296 AD. RIC 13 (R3). Depeyrot 12/1 (p. 140, 17 specimens). Calico 4440. Cohen 51 (100 Fr.). Slightly wavy flan. Mint state. © 2005-2008 Gemini, LLC | Email: info@geminiauction.com Gemini Auctions' results, text and images are re-used by the kind permission of: Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com)