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Cited in Bastien

943226. Sold For $975

Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Æ Double Sestertius (30mm, 18.58 g, 4h). Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne) mint; engraver 15B. 2nd emission, 1st period, AD 264-266. IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate and draped bust right / IOVI PRO PVGNA[T]O, Jupiter standing right, holding eagle and preparing to hurl thunderbolt. RIC V –; Mairat –; Bastien, Postume 325 (this coin cited); Banti –. Good VF, brown surfaces, with traces of uncertain undertype. Extremely rare, and the only listed example in Bastien.


Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection; Etienne Récamier Collection (Bourgey, 2 March 1925), lot 427.