brm_306002 - POSTUMUS Double sesterce
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 400.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 400.00 €
Type : Double sesterce
Date: 261
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 31,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,31 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Usure importante avec une faiblesse de frappe au revers. Jolie patine verte. Buste rarissime parfaitement identifiable !
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIRTVS POSTV-MI AVG.
Obverse description : Buste casqué, drapé et cuirassé de Postume à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (E3*).
Obverse translation : "Virtus Postumi Augusti", (A la virilité de l’auguste Postume).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L[AETIT]IA/ -|-// AVG.
Reverse description : Galère voguant à droite avec quatre rameurs et un timonier tenant le gouvernail.
Reverse translation : "Lætitia Augusti", (La Joie de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rare légende au droit. Type que nous proposons pour la première fois à la vente !.
Lightweight. A rare legend on the right. This type is being offered for sale for the first time!
Lightweight. A rare legend on the right. This type is being offered for sale for the first time!
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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