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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 8231625, member: 96898"]I have posted most of my Postumus subcollection on this board, but here is a coin I didn't show yet. I bought it in 2021 and somehow never found the time to do a full write-up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Earlier sholarship has sometimes considered the "NEPTVUNO REDVCI"-type a reference either to the legion XXX, whose emblem was Neptune, or to a voyage of Postumus to Britain. Septimius Severus, for example, had minted similar coins to celebrate his safe sea voyage to Britain in 208 AD. Jerome Mairat is rather sceptical of these theories, though: "The reverse with Neptune is more likely to symbolise only the safe return of Postumus from a naval journey, probably on the Rhine" (Mairat: The Coinage of the Gallic Empire, Diss. Oxford 2014, 119).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1447219[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Postumus, Gallic Roman Empire, AR antoninianus, 262–263 AD, Trier mint. Obv: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG; bust of Postumus, radiate, draped, cuirassed, r. Rev: NEPTVNO REDVCI; Neptune stg. l., holding small dolphin in r. hand and vertical trident in l. hand, at feet, to l., prow of ship. 23 mm, 3.64g. Ref: Mairat 243; RIC V Postumus 76.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 8231625, member: 96898"]I have posted most of my Postumus subcollection on this board, but here is a coin I didn't show yet. I bought it in 2021 and somehow never found the time to do a full write-up. Earlier sholarship has sometimes considered the "NEPTVUNO REDVCI"-type a reference either to the legion XXX, whose emblem was Neptune, or to a voyage of Postumus to Britain. Septimius Severus, for example, had minted similar coins to celebrate his safe sea voyage to Britain in 208 AD. Jerome Mairat is rather sceptical of these theories, though: "The reverse with Neptune is more likely to symbolise only the safe return of Postumus from a naval journey, probably on the Rhine" (Mairat: The Coinage of the Gallic Empire, Diss. Oxford 2014, 119). [ATTACH=full]1447219[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Postumus, Gallic Roman Empire, AR antoninianus, 262–263 AD, Trier mint. Obv: IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG; bust of Postumus, radiate, draped, cuirassed, r. Rev: NEPTVNO REDVCI; Neptune stg. l., holding small dolphin in r. hand and vertical trident in l. hand, at feet, to l., prow of ship. 23 mm, 3.64g. Ref: Mairat 243; RIC V Postumus 76.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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