brm_992047 - POSTUMUS Double sesterce
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Type : Double sesterce
Date: 261-263
Mint name / Town : Atelier II
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 12,79 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli buste. Usure plus importante au revers. Patine marron
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M CASS LAT PO[STVM]VS 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 Marcus Cassius Latinius Postumus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marcus Cassius Latinius Postume pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : EXER[C]ITVS VAG (SIC!) -/-// S C.
Reverse description : Postume à cheval à gauche, levant la main droite pour haranguer quatre soldats, dont le premier tient une haste, les autres un étendard.
Reverse translation : "Exercitus Augusti", (L’Armée 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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