442, Lot: 581. Estimate $100. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Lot of three (3) coins.
581a Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (20.5mm, 4.45 g, 7h). Mint I. Group IVb (AD 267). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VBERITAS AVG, Uberitas standing left, holding purse(?) and cornucopiae. AGK 94 (s); RIC V 330; Cunetio 2439. VF, good silver content. reverse die a bit weak.
Ex Mūnz Zentrum 75 (14 April 1993), lot 1315. 581b Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (19mm, 3.60 g, 7h). Mint I. Group IVb (AD 267). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVTI AVGVSTI, Hercules standing right, resting on long club. AGK 114 and note (s); RIC V 333 var. (no lionskin); Cunetio 2442. VF, toned, some silver content, a few earthen deposits.
Bought from Baldwin's, 1994.AGK note 114 refers to three variants of this reverse distinguished in the Cunetio hoard report. On only one of these does Hercules hold a lionskin, as AGK 114. The other two feature either a long or a short club without lionskin. This coin belongs to the second of the three types.
581c Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.40 g, 12h). Mint I. Group Va-b (AD 268). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / IOVI STATORI, Jupiter standing facing, head right, holding sceptre and thunderbolt. AGK 38a (c3); RIC V 309; Cunetio 2449. Good VF, toned, small flan crack.
Bought from C. J. Martin (Coins) Ltd., 1981. . .