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 MERCVRIO FELICI.----This circumscription appears on gold, silver, and small brass coins of Postumus, with the effigy of Mercury standing naked, with the pallium thrown back on the left shoulder, the purse in his right hand, as the tutelary of merchants, and in his left a caduceus.----The Gauls (according to Caesar) worshipped Mercury as the inventor of arts, as the guide of journeyings, and also as the favourer of merchants. Allusion in this coin is made to the civic virtues in which Postumus was acknowledged to excel; and for encouraging, as well as enforcing, the practice of which he was esteemed vir dignissimus by the Gauls, whom he governed.

    On a small brass of Diadumenian, struck by the Roman colonists of Sinope, Mercury is represented holding the purse in his right hand and caduceus in left.----See Crumena.