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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Secessionist Empires| > |Postumus| > RA89650
Romano-Gallic Empire, Postumus, Summer 260 - Spring 269 A.D.
|Postumus|, |Romano-Gallic| |Empire,| |Postumus,| |Summer| |260| |-| |Spring| |269| |A.D.|, In 265, Gallienus launched a campaign to defeat Postumus. Postumus escaped the first assault due to the carelessness of Aureolus, Gallienus' cavalry commander. Gallienus led the second campaign himself but was wounded and forced to withdraw. By the end of 265, Postumus' coins proudly announced his victory.
RA89650. Silver antoninianus, RIC V-2 311, RSC IV 161a, Schulzki AGK 39, Elmer 571, Cunetio 2468, Mairat 205 - 207, SRCV III 10955, Hunter IV - (p. xci), VF, choice obverse, much silvering, nice portrait, flow lines, edge split and crack, reverse struck with a worn die, Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne, Germany) mint, weight 2.872g, maximum diameter 19.9mm, die axis 180o, c. 268 A.D.; obverse IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, from the front; reverse IOVI VICTORI (Jove the victorious), Jupiter in fighting attitude, nude but for chlamys over shoulders and flying behind on left, head right, hurling thunderbolt with right hand, long scepter transverse in left; ex Beast Coins; SOLD











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