281, Lot: 611. Estimate $150. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Carl Wilhelm Becker. 1772-1830. Imitating Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. AR Antoninianus (20mm, 5.61 g, 11h). POSTVMVS PIVS FELIX AVG, laureate head right / ORIEN-S AVG, Sol standing facing, head left, extending hand and holding globe. Hill, Becker 229. Near EF, toned.

Hill (p. 18) notes: “There seems to be no original for this coin. The inscr. Postumus Pius Felix Aug. regularly accompanies the jugate heads of Postumus and Hercules, not the head of the Emperor alone.”