brm_396396 - POSTUMUS Double sesterce
950.00 €(Approx. 1111.50$ | 826.50£)
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Type : Double sesterce
Date: 261
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 16,06 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire pour ce type rarissime ! Joli portrait et bel Hercule au revers. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
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 Cassius Latinius Postumus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marcus Cassius Latinius Postume pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : HE[RCVLI MAGV]SANO.
Reverse description : Hercule nu, debout à droite, la main droite sur sa hanche et la main gauche tenant une massue entourée de la léonté.
Reverse translation : “Herculi Magusano”, (À Hercule de Magusano).
Commentary
C’est sans aucun doute l’un des revers les plus rares, encore plus pour un double sesterce que pour un antoninien !.
This is undoubtedly one of the rarest reverses, even more so for a double sestertius than for an Antoninian!
This is undoubtedly one of the rarest reverses, even more so for a double sestertius than for an Antoninian!
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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