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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8245136, member: 110350&quot;]I have only one halfway-decent coin of Postumus, although I&#039;m already the fourth person in this thread to post an example of the type. (I&#039;ve added the information above about the theory that the mint is Trier rather than Cologne.) I bought it for the nice portrait, and because I thought it interesting that the breakaway Gallic Empire would issue a coin depicting an Eastern (specifically a Greco-Egyptian) syncretistic deity, specifically coinciding with my interest in Egypt.</p><p><br /></p><p>Postumus, silvered billon Antoninianus, Cologne or Trier Mint, 265-268 AD. Obv. Radiate &amp; draped bust right, IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG / Rev. Serapis, crowned and draped, standing left, raising right hand and holding transverse sceptre in left hand; in background, prow of galley right, SARAPI COMITI AVG. RIC V-1 329, RSC IV 358, Sear RCV III 10992 (ill. p. 364). 21 mm., 3.80 g. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451876[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The only other Postumus coin I have with a photograph is this ragged specimen, which I probably bought 35 years ago, for forgotten reasons:</p><p><br /></p><p>Postumus, silvered billon Antoninianus, Lyons [Lugdunum] Mint, 260 AD. Obv. Radiate, draped &amp; cuirassed bust right, IMP C POSTVMVS PF AVG/ Rev. Postumus standing left w/spear &amp; globe, PM TR P CO-S II PP.&nbsp; RIC V-1 54, RSC IV 243, Sear RCV III 10971. 22 mm., 3.9 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451877[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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