Postumus, Silver Ant

Here is one my favorites!

Postumus, AR Antoninianus, 24mm, 3.55 grams
IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped & cuirassed bust right / HERC PACIFERO, Hercules standing right, holding olive branch & club.
RIC 67, RSC 101, Sear5 10946.
Lugdunum mint

 

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A very nice coin!

 

nice!

 

Very nice. Need to redo my pic sometime. Its old.

 

Very nice.

 

TJC: Nice coin. What makes you say it is from the mint at Lugdunum? If I understand correctly (big if),

If this is true, then it looks like your coin may have been struck at Cologne. Regardless, it's a very nice coin.

Oh, and BTW, :welcome:

 

Nice coin...Yours is in better shape than mine (especially on the reverse) but I liked the portrait which is always a bigger concern for me.

 

I own two Postumus, and, like Drusus, I bought mainly for the obverse portrait rather than the reverse

 

Nice coins all. It really is incongruous how you can sometimes get stunning portraits on the obverse of certain Roman issues, coupled with stick-figure reverses.

 

My coin is the third of this type shown here so far and all have different dies. They share what I'd call an odd reverse portrait of Hercules showing the face a bit too large compared to the head it is on. Or, another way to see it, is the back of the head just small?

 

Wow!! ... a blast from the past => TJ Coins!!

Howdy friend ... long-time, no hear!!! (I always miss you CCF dudes when I hear a random flash-back)

... I hope that everything is great with you and your life and coin-world? (everything is good with me) .... oh. but Bing is still always chuckin' crap at me and my coin/spending habits (you haven't missed much)

... hey, nobody ever tells me if SMACKDOWN is still goin'?!!! (is SMACKDOWN still goin'?)

Cheers dawg

x6

 

Are you drunk? Where's TJCoins?

 

sorry ... I merely assumed that TJC was TJCoins from the CCF (my bad) ... carry-on (nuthin' to see here)

 

He's definitely drunk...

 

lol

 

*whateva*

 

CNG, do I need to say more Steve?

 

Hey stevex I am not sure if your drunk or not, but yeah it's me)) I just changed my handle a bit. At work. Gotta go be back soon.

 

Yes its me. I was going to just keep posting coins that I thought a few of may have seen till someone figured it out. Its great to be back in touch with the few of ya-all that I ain't been in touch with recently

Steve smackdowns are still rockin!:hail:

SKI=echizento?

Mat, Drusus, Bing, and Doug your Postumus's look great!:loud::devil::bart:

Bing, I got the Lugdunum mint from wildwinds under RIC 67 in the "text" section. They have it marked Lugdunum but they or I could be wrong. Where is your reference from?

Thank you all for your replies! :smile

 

Postumus AE Antoninianus. Lyons mint.

OBV: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate bust right.

REV: PROVIDENTIA AVG, Providentia standing left, holding globe and transverse sceptre.

REF: Sear5 10979. RIC 80

This is my only Postumus coin.