442, Lot: 590. Estimate $100. Sold for $211. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of five (5) coins. 590a Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.88 g, 12h). Mint I. Group VIa (AD 268). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ORIENS AVG, Sol running left, right arm raised, left holding whip. AGK 48 (c1); RIC V 77; Cunetio 2451. Good VF, some silver content, well struck.

Bought from Spink, 1995. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CIII.3 (April 1995), no. 1594.

590b Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (20mm, 2.50 g, 12h). Mint I. Group VII (AD 269). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / COS · V ·, winged Nemesis standing facing, head right, right hand raised, left holding vertical palm branch. AGK 10 (c1); RIC V 288; Cunetio 2459. VF, dark brown surfaces, flan crack.

Bought from C. J. Martin (Coins) Ltd., 1992.

Schulzki considers that the murder of Postumus did not take place until early in AD 269. Melville Jones (1990), pp. 208-9, states that Nemesis ‘was originally a personification of Apportionment, the idea of rightful distribution, with the associated idea of righteous retribution.’ She could sometimes be equated to Victory and sometimes to peace. On this coin she has both the wings and the palm branch of Victory, and her appearance on this very late issue of Postumus may be interpreted as both celebrating and justifying his victory over Gallienus.

590c Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (20mm, 2.48 g, 12h). Mint I. Group VII (AD 269). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PACATOR ORBIS, radiate bust of Sol right. AGK 50 (s); RIC V 317; Cunetio 2465. VF, rough brown surfaces. Scarce.

Bought from Paul-Francis Jacquier, 1991. Ex Jacquier FPL 13 (Autumn 1991), no. 315.

590d Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (21mm, 3.65 g, 2h). Mint II (Colonia Agrippinensis [Cologne]). Unnumbered group (AD 266-267). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SAECVLI FELICITAS, Postumus standing right, holding globe and spear. AGK 77 (c4); RIC V 325; Cunetio 2444. VF, toned, some silver content.

Bought from Hans Gilljam, 1977.

590e Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.32 g, 11h). Contemporary imitation. IMP C PSTVMVS (sic) P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / FELICIT[A]S AVG, Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus and cornucopiae. As AGK 14; as RIC V 58. VF, some silver content, rough in spots.

Bought from Baldwin's, 1996.

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