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CNG 84, Lot: 1823. Estimate $300.
Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FANTASY PIECE. Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Æ “As” (28mm, 8.65 g, 12h). Modern (eighteenth or early nineteenth century) imitation of a Treveri (Trier) mint antoninianus. IMP C POSTVMVS PI AVG, Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / NEPTVИO REDVCI, Neptune standing left on waves, holding aplustre and trident; behind, prow of galley left. Cf. RIC V 76; cf. RSC 205a. Good VF, brown patina, remains of casting sprue, traces of silvering.