442, Lot: 566. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Lot of three (3) coins. 566a Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (22.5mm, 3.32 g, 6h). Mint I. Group Ib (AD 260-261). IMP C POSTVMVS P ·F · AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA AVG, Victory walking left, holding wreath and palm; seated captive at her feet. AGK 97c (c4); RIC V 89; Cunetio 2375. VF, toned, some silver content, flan crack.

Bought from Seaby, 1984.

566b Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (23mm, 2.94 g, 1h). Mint I. Group Ic (AD 261). IMP C POSTVMVS · P ·F · AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / HERC DEVSONIENSI, Hercules standing right, leaning on club, holding bow and lionskin. AGK 25 (c4); RIC V 64; Cunetio 2383. VF, toned, some silver content, flan crack.

Bought from North Wales Coins, 1979.

This reverse type, and that of Lots 569a, 607, 608 and 609, refer to the cult of Hercules at Deuso, which was long considered to refer to Deutz, now a suburb of Cologne. The note to lot 600 in the catalogue of the Lūckger collection (Peus Auktion 417, 2 November 2016) states that this attribution is no longer considered to be correct, and that Deuso should be identified as either Dissen, North Brabant, or Doesburg, Gelderland – both in the modern Netherlands.

566c Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (22mm, 2.98 g, 1h). Mint I. Group IIb (AD 262). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / HERC PACIFERO, Hercules standing left, holding olive branch, club and lionskin. AGK 27 (c4); RIC V 67; Cunetio 2395. VF, some silver content, porosity, flan crack.

Ex Glendining’s (7 July 1993), lot 65 (part of); Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, Hoard (1989) [IRBCH 740A], no. 943 (part of).

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