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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4263426, member: 96898"]That's a very nice portrait and reverse on your Postumus! He definitely had some skilled engravers working for him. Here are a less stellar Postumus as well as an earlier eastern Moneta by Septimius Severus. I find it noteworthy that with the exception of e.g. the idiosyncratic Rhenus and Hercules Deusoniensis reverses, almost all Postumus reverse types are adapted from earlier Imperial coins.[ATTACH=full]1086200[/ATTACH]Postumus, Gallic Roman Empire, AR antoninian, 262–266 AD, Trier mint. Obv: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG; bust of Postumus, radiate, draped, cuirassed, r. Rev: MONETA AVG; Moneta, draped, standing l., holding scales in r. hand and cornucopiae in l. hand. 23mm, 2.96g. Ref: Mairat 246–7/320–1; RIC V Postumus 75/315. [ATTACH=full]1086201[/ATTACH] Septimius Severus, Roman Empire, AR denarius, 194–195 AD, Emesa mint. Obv: IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II; head of Septimius Severus, laureate, r. Rev: MONET AVG; Moneta, draped, standing l., holding scales in extended r. hand and cornucopiae in l. hand. 18mm, 3.32g. Ref: RIC IV Septimius Severus 411A. ("Scooped"?) Unfortunately, the coinage quality of the Gallic Empire followed the current course of the stock market in the decade after Postumus:[ATTACH=full]1086204[/ATTACH] Tetricus II as Caesar, Gallic Roman Empire, AE antoninian, 272–273 AD, Trier mint. Obv: C PIV ESV TETRICVS CAES; bust of Tetricus II, radiate, draped, r. Rev: [SPES] PVBL[ICA]; Spes walking l., holding flower in r. hand and raising robe with l. hand. 16mm, 1.54g. Ref: Mairat 795; RIC V Tetricus I 272.[/QUOTE]

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