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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 4263001, member: 97383&quot;]Watching the stock and commodity markets lately is worse than getting <b>ECT</b>, (<i>electo convulsive therapy)</i> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I&#039;m glad I&#039;ve got ancient coins to escape with <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Yesterday while trying to organize some coins acquired over the last few years I stumbled on an interesting coin of the Gallic Usurper I got several years ago but never posted, pictured below. The coin has an excellent portrait of Postumus, and depicts the goddess Moneta on the reverse. Emperor Gallienus invaded the territory of the renegade Postumus after he had Saloninus, his younger son, executed. This epic invasion lasted from late 263 to early 265, and ended in a stalemate. The coinage being struck by Postumus at that time was far superior to the coinage of Gallienus. The coinage of Gallienus was bronze with a silver wash while the coinage of Postumus was composed of 20% silver, and the depiction of Moneta on the reverse of my coin is clearly a boast that his coinage was better.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1086121[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1086122[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>For comparison pictured below is a antoninianus struck under Gallienus from the Milan Mint about the same time as my coin, courtesy of Wild Winds.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1086125[/ATTACH] </p><p>Gallienus, sole reign, AD 260 - 268, Milan Mint, AE antoninianus: 4.07 gm, 21 mm.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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