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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 26068120, member: 128351&quot;]On the side of the french motorways there are brown signs showing local places of touristic interest (monuments, nature, etc.). The places you can visit if you turn right at the next exit. On the motorway from Paris to Rouen and Normandy, one can find near Evreux this sign, with the cathedral of Evreux and a double sestertius of Postumus. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1659925[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s because some years ago an archaeological dig near Evreux in a Gallo-Roman farm house found a hoard of c. 100 large Roman bronze coins, the majority of which were sestertii and double sestertii of Postumus, some official, minted in 261, others being struck or cast local imitations made c. 266-268. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1659926[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is my own double sestertius of Postumus (not from this hoard of course). This emperor, often called an usurper, was the last one who minted large bronze coins in significant quantities. Unlike Gallienus&#039; post-260 sestertii, which are rare, those of Postumus minted in Trier, or Cologne, or Lyons - specialists are divided - are very common.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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