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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 7890365, member: 96898&quot;]As far as I understand, the main source for this are indeed Postumus&#039; coins, especially this reverse type, which was minted in great numbers:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1361423[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Postumus, Gallic Roman Empire, AR antoninianus, 261 AD, Trier mint. Obv: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG; bust of Postumus, radiate, draped, cuirassed, r. Rev: HERC DEVSONIENSI; Hercules stg. r., with r. hand leaning on club, and holding bow in l. hand and lion’s skin over I. arm. 24 mm, 3.44g. Ref: Mairat 100; RIC V Postumus 64. </font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><font size="4">&quot;DEVSONIENSI&quot; appears to be a place name. A Germanic city named &quot;Deusone&quot; is mentioned in St. Jerome&#039;s <i>Chronicon</i> and probably refers to the Dutch village of Diessen in North Brabant, that is in former Batavian core territory. The &quot;Hercules of Diessen&quot; likely was a local Germanic deity that had been absorbed into the provincial Roman pantheon.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><font size="4">The fact that Postumus highlighted this local deity on his coins has led some scholars to believe that Diessen was Postumus&#039; birthplace and/or that he belonged to the Batavian population associated with the cult of Hercules Deusoniensis. Jerome Mairat discusses these positions in detail and concludes: &quot;It seems very possible, indeed, that Postumus was born at Diessen or, at least, was of Batavian origin. But without any other evidence, the interpretation of a single reverse type is probably inadequate to prove the location of Postumus’s birthplace, and doubts must remain.&quot; (Mairat: The Coinage of the Gallic Empire, Oxford 2014, 107).</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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