Live auction - brm_741650 - POSTUMUS Double sesterce
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Live starting : Type : Double sesterce
Date: c. 264-266
Mint name / Town : Irregular mint
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,91 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan large, centré des deux côtés. Très beau buste de Postume. Des faiblesses. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié de Postume à droite, avec cuirasse et paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Postumus Pius Felix Augustus", (Empereur César Postume Pieux Heureux Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES MILITVM.
Reverse description : Fides (La Fidélité) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant une enseigne militaire dans chaque main.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des Armées).
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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