442, Lot: 563. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
|
Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Quinarius (14mm, 1.20 g, 7h). Offstrike from gold quinarius dies. Uncertain mint. POSTVMVS AVG, jugate, laureate busts of Postumus and Hercules right / SALVS AVG, Aesculapius standing facing, head left, leaning on staff round which snake is coiled. Sondermann Q.7 (same dies); cf. Schulte (1983) Q11 (gold quinarius; same dies; December AD 265); RIC V 363. Near VF, rough and porous surfaces, flan crack. Very rare.
Ex Negrini 3 (14 March 1996), lot 146.