Live auction - brm_1038741 - POSTUMUS Sesterce
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| Estimate : | 3 800 € |
| Price : | 3 600 € |
| Maximum bid : | 3 600 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 September 2025 15:12:23 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Sesterce
Date: 261
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,61 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan légèrement décentré. Joli buste de Postume, détaillé, quasi SUP. Des faiblesses. Patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIRTVS - POSTVMI AV-G.
Obverse description : Buste casqué et cuirassé à gauche de Postume, avec bouclier et haste sur l’épaule droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (E*3).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Postumi augusti”, (La Virilité de l’auguste Postume).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P CO-S II P P/ S|C.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) debout à gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et une longue haste pointée vers le haut de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul iterum Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife, revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne, consul pour la deuxième fois, père de la patrie).
Commentary
Exemplaire de la plus grande rareté, un seul exemplaire répertorié dans le “Monnayage de bronze de Postume” de Pierre Bastien, conservé au Cabinet des Médailles de Paris.
A very rare example, a single example listed in the “Bronze Coinage of Postumus” by Pierre Bastien, kept in the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris
A very rare example, a single example listed in the “Bronze Coinage of Postumus” by Pierre Bastien, kept in the Cabinet des Médailles in Paris
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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