442, Lot: 601. Estimate $150. Sold for $297. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Radiate bronze (28mm, 10.57 g, 5h). Struck AD 260(?). IMP C M CASS LAT P[OST]VMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / [E]XERCITVS VAG (sic), emperor on horseback to left, addressing four soldiers standing right. RIC V 117; Bastien 141f ; Banti 4 var. (rev. legend). Good Fine, brown surfaces, some pitting, a few remaining deposits. Rare.

Ex Friedrich Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica, 2 April 1995), lot 1935.

Bastien (1967, 163, note 1) describes the coins listed as 141f as ‘des reductions coulées’ (reduced size casts). The coins listed as 141a-e are all of larger module.