brm_748699 - POSTUMUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 268
Mint name / Town : Cologne
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 3,12 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, centré. Joli buste. Patine marron
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 : IOVI - V-ICTOR-I.
Reverse description : Jupiter marchant à gauche, la tête à droite, brandissant un foudre de la main droite et tenant une haste transversale sur l'épaule gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Victori”, (À Jupiter victorieux).
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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