442, Lot: 576. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Lot of three (3) coins.
576a Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (20.5mm, 3.43 g, 1h). Mint I. Group IVa (AD 266). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SAECVLO FRVGIFERO, winged caduceus. AGK 78 (s); RIC V 84; Cunetio 2426. Near EF, high silver content, underlying brilliance.
Bought from Coincraft, London, 1988. 576b Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (21mm, 2.60 g, 7h). Mint I. Group IVa (AD 266). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SALVS AVG, Aesculapius standing facing, head left, leaning on staff round which snake coils; globe at his feet, on right. AGK 80 (c2); RIC V 86; Cunetio 2435. Near VF, low grade silver with a few deposits.
Ex Glendining’s (7 July 1993), lot 65 (part of); Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, Hoard (1989) [IRBCH
740A], no. 961 (part of). 576c Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (20mm, 3.45 g, 7h). Mint I. Group IVa (AD 266). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / SALVS AVG, Aesculapius standing facing, head left, leaning on staff round which snake coils; no globe at feet. AGK 81 (s); RIC V 86; Cunetio 2436. VF, some silver content, minor porosity.
Bought from Spink, 1995. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CIII.3 (April 1995), no. 1588. . .