E-auction 47-19599 - brm_115766 - POSTUMUS Antoninien
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| Estimate : | 95 € |
| Price : | 30 € |
| Maximum bid : | 42 € |
| End of the sale : | 10 March 2014 15:52:00 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 260-261
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 200 ‰
Diameter : 21,50 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 5,26 g.
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait de haut relief. Flan légèrement piqué au revers. une patine grise recouvre l’ensemble de la pièce
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 : P M TR P CO-S II P P.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) ou Postume vêtu militairement, debout à gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et une haste de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul secundum Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la deuxième fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
Sous Postume, nous avons des monnaies parfois très légères, mais aussi très lourdes dont le poids dépasse les cinq grammes et peut monter jusqu’à sept grammes. En aucun cas, nous ne pouvons évoquer des doubles antoniniani, mais des antoniniens de poids lourd.
Under Postumus, we have coins that are sometimes very light, but also very heavy, weighing more than five grams and up to seven grams. In no case can we speak of double antoniniani, but rather of heavy antoninians.
Under Postumus, we have coins that are sometimes very light, but also very heavy, weighing more than five grams and up to seven grams. In no case can we speak of double antoniniani, but rather of heavy antoninians.
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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