Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1573. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

POSTUMUS. Romano-Gallic Emperor, 260-269 AD. Æ Double Sestertius (22.60 g, 5h). Mint I (Trier), 3rd emission, 261 AD. IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / LAETITIA AVG, galley, with four rowers and steersman, left. RIC V 143; Mairat 190; Bastien, Postume 87 (same obv. die); Banti 29; Hunter 126; Cohen 177. Good VF, hard dark green-brown patina, slightly weak strike. Well centered. ($750)

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection.