404, Lot: 563. Estimate $200. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Æ Sestertius (26mm, 11.90 g, 6h). Irregular mint – “Mint II”. 2nd bronze phase, first period, AD 264-266. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Pax advancing left, holding branch and scepter. RIC V 218; Mairat –; Bastien 279b (same dies). Good VF, brown patina with touches of red.

From the M. Thys Collection, purchased from Spink, 1998.