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442, Lot: 591. Estimate $75.
Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (20.5mm, 3.46 g, 7h). Mint II (Colonia Agrippinensis [Cologne]). Group I (AD 268). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / IOVI VICTORI, Jupiter walking left, looking back, holding thunderbolt and sceptre; C A across field. AGK 40 (s); RIC V 311 and note 1; Cunetio 2467. VF, brown surfaces, some minor roughness, small area of hard green.


Bought from Paul-Francis Jacquier, 1992. Ex Jacquier FPL 14 (Autumn 1992), no. 365.

Schulzki’s grading of this type as only ‘scarce’ is surprising, as very few examples come onto the market. It may be that the type is over-represented in major public collections owing to its Cologne mint-mark.