brm_970711 - POSTUMUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 263-265
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 2,91 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré des deux côtés. Joli buste de Postume. Revers agréable. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Postume à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Postumus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Postume pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDENTIA AVG.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) drapée, debout de face regardant à gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Augusti”, (La Providence de l'auguste).
Historical background
POSTUMUS
(06-07/260-06/269)
Postume seizes the purple by eliminating Salonin, son of Gallien, of whom he had custody. He reigns over Gaul, Brittany and Spain. Did Postume toy with the idea of conquering the Roman Empire? Gallien, twice, will try to reconquer the "pars occidentalis" of the Empire, without success. Postume will remain in power for nine years, before perishing assassinated for having refused the sack of Mainz, a city which supported Lélien.
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