brm_923352 - POSTUMUS Antoninien
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Price : 75.00 €
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Price : 75.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 261
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 200 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,27 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré. Joli buste. Revers à l’usure régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
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 : LAETITIA/ -|-// AVG.
Reverse description : Galère voguant à gauche avec quatre rameurs, sept rames et un timonier tenant le gouvernail.
Reverse translation : “Lætitia Augusti”, (La Joie 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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