Ancients: Postumus

I don't have a Postumus to enter the gathering. I can show an earlier Greaco-Bactrian version of the same reverse however. Diodotus II, ca 230 BC.

 

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What I'd like to see are some Postumus sestertii and dupondii. Who's got them? Surely Doug and/or Martin can pull a few out of their pockets.

 

POSTUMUS Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP C POSTVMVS PF AVG, his radiate, draped and cuirassed bust rt
REVERSE: PROVIDENTIA AVG, Providence standing lt., holding a globe and sceptre
Struck 265-8 AD
2.90g, 21mm
RIC 80, 323; RSC 295; Hunter 75


POSTUMUS Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP C POSTVMVS PF AVG, his radiate, draped and cuirassed bust rt
REVERSE: PAX AVG - Pax advancing left, holding branch and scepter
Struck 259-268 AD
3.8g, 22mm
RIC 78


POSTUMUS Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and
cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: MONETA AVG, Moneta standing left holding scales and cornucopiae
Struck 262-5 AD
3.7g. 21mm
RIC 75

 

Mine are junkers and have been shown here before. Really nice bronzes are really hard to find and out off my price range.


Trivia: What is notable for its omission on Postumus' bronzes?

 

.... yellow?

 

Those are lovely coins in my book. I only hope to have a few as nice as those someday. Obviously Gallic Empire coins had not been approved by the Roman Senate, so you won't find S. C. on them. But perhaps I'm wrong...

Edit: yes, I'm wrong. There are a few types with S. C. How is that possible?

 

I don't have the financial wherewithal to buy some of the fantastic looking Postumus big bronzes I see in the auction catalogs, but I like them enough in any grade to pick up the cheap junky ones .




I would have guessed the "S-C" to Doug's trivia question as well, except I know there are coins of his which have it (Postumus had established his own Senate at Cologne). But as to the answer to Doug's question, I basically haven't got a clue either!

 

I was referring to the lack of SC on most issues. Who has one with it to show?

 

My Postumus plays catch:



Postumus AR Antoninianus. Lyons mint, 260 AD. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped & cuirassed bust right / P M TR P COS II P P, Postumus standing left with globe and spear. RIC 54, Cohen 243; Sear 10971. (I believe.)


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I found this youtube clip on Postumus surprisingly informative. (It at least puts his reign in context with surrounding events and people.)



It's always good to review the confusing events of the third century crisis and the breakaway states such as the Romano-Gallic empire, as well as the many usurpers.


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