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v26_0413 - POSTUMUS Double sesterce, (GB, Æ 28)

POSTUMUS Double sesterce, (GB, Æ 28) VF/VF
VF/VF
MONNAIES 26 (2006)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Double sesterce, (GB, Æ 28)
Date: 261
Mint name / Town : Atelier II
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 13,44 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Usure très importante, mais exemplaire parfaitement identifiable. Flan étroit, irrégulier et échancré. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
C.177 (4f.) - RIC.143  - B.218 var. - RCV.-  - E.243  - MRK.98 /103 var. (1000€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP C M CASS LAT 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 Marcus Cassianus Latinius Postumus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Marcus Cassianus Latinius Postume pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : [LAETITIA]// AV[G].
Reverse description : Galère voguant à gauche avec rameurs.
Reverse translation : “Lætitia Augusti”, (La Joie de l'auguste).

Commentary

Cassure de coin très importante au droit barrant la légende. Exemplaire à l’épigraphie élégante.

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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