brm_696244 - POSTUMUS Sesterce
Not available.
Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 300.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 300.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: 261
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 23,36 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, épais, centré des deux côtés. Joli buste. Usure régulière. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé 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 : LAETITIA// AVG.
Reverse description : Galère voguant à gauche avec quatre rameurs et un pilote placé sous l'acrostolium.
Reverse translation : "Lætitia Augusti", (La Joie de l'auguste).
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.
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sell
Full data
Your Recently Viewed Items
HADRIAN Denier XF
55.00 €
SEVERUS ALEXANDER Sesterce VF
32.00 €
GERMANICUS As VF
51.00 €
cgbfr.com numismatists
