Received today, to go along with Postumous and Tetricus, from the breakaway Gallic Empire. Victorinus AE Antoninianus. Southern Gallic mint, 270/1 AD. IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG, radiate cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS AVG, Virtus standing right, holding spear and leaning on a shield. Cohen 131; Sear 11185. RIC 78. And here are the other two. Postumus AR Antoninianus. Trier. 264-265 CE IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / MONETA AVG, Moneta standing left with scales in right hand and holding cornucopiae and raising hem of skirt with left. RIC 75. RSC 199, Sear 10962. (Note the curly hair above the brow on the obverse. This is one of the main characteristics which distinguishes this coin from RIC 315 from Cologne, on which the hair is in more or less straight lines.) Tetricus I AE Antoninianus. Gallic mint, Cologne, 271-274 CE. IMP C TETRICVS P F AVG, radiate bust right / COMES AVG, Victory standing left holding wreath & palm. RIC 56; Sear 11232. 18mm, 2.61g Please post your usurpers.
SALUS FEEDING SNAKE RISING FROM ALTAR AND HOLDING SCEPTRE 3.07 g 21.2 mm Roman Imperial Coinage, Postumus, Double-Sestertius, Trier, 260-9, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, rev. Fides standing left, holding two standards, 20.94g (RIC 123; Banti 12; Holmes 604). Postumus, Double-Sestertius, Trier, 260-9, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, rev. galley left with four rowers, 18.92g (RIC 143; Banti 29; Holmes 612). IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS P AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right [RESTITVT]OR GALLIAR, Emperor standing to left, holding spear, extending right arm to Gallia kneeling to right, holding spear(?). Mairat, 2014 (unpublished PhD Thesis), 72; RIC V.2 158 (Lugdunum); Bastien 30. 20.69g, 32mm, 6h. I'm fond of these double sestertii. Following is Carausius. Carausius, 287-293 Antoninianus Londinium circa 290-292, billon 22mm., 3.08g. Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust r. Rev. Pax, draped standing l., holding olive-branch in r. hand and vertical sceptre in l. hand. C 215. RIC 99.
Why call them "usurpers"? The "Gallic Empire" was a breakaway empire, the result of a secession, but this kind of situation often happens in history. Would you call the kings of Pergamum usurpers? Victorinus, Tetricus father and son...
