442, Lot: 617. Estimate $750. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Laureate bronze (30mm, 21.99 g, 6h). Struck AD 260. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / SALVS AVG, Salus / Aesculapius standing left, leaning on column, feeding snake held in arms. RIC V 163; Bastien 18 (same dies as illustration); Banti 57 (same dies as illustration). Good VF, dark green patina. some traces of earthen encrustation along edge. Handsome bronze. Very rare, only the BN piece published (illustrated in Basien and Banti).

Ex Megret-Merger (Boule) 107 (16 October 2015), lot 187.