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442, Lot: 572. Estimate $100.
Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (20.5mm, 4.65 g, 1h). Mint I. Group IVa (AD 266). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / DIANAE LVCIFERE, Diana walking right, holding torch. AGK 12 var. (see note 12 – no deer on rev.); RIC V 299; Cunetio 2431 var. (same). Good VF, good silver content, some weakness of strike on the reverse.


Bought from CGB, Paris, 2007. Ex CGF Monnaies 32 (6 December 2007), no. 431.

AGK note 12 records just one specimen of this reverse legend combined with the absence of the deer – ex Étaples hoard, now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. The CGB catalogue lists three other previously known specimens – Tyll Kroha auction 71 (1999), lot 157; Jacquier list 32, no. 464; private collection. The note to lot 554 in the catalogue for Auction 42 of Paul-Francis Jacquier (September 2016) states that the Évreux hoard contained no less than eight examples, however, and that the specimen offered there is the thirteenth recorded. Most of these are in museum collections, however. It is not certain whether the example listed as ‘private collection’ is this coin or another one, but in either case it is clear that very few specimens are in private hands.