RESTITVTOR GALLIAR

442, Lot: 587. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (20.5mm, 4.01 g, 1h). Mint I. Group Vc (AD 268). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / RESTITVTOR GALLIAR, emperor standing left, holding sceptre, right foot on seated captive, raising figure of Gallia kneeling to right, holding cornucopiae. AGK 74 (r3); RIC V 82; Cunetio 2452. Good VF, toned, good silver content, touch of porosity. Very rare.

Ex Michel Thys Collection (Jacquier 42, 16 September 2016), lot 592; Auctiones AG 26 (16 June 1996), lot 1085.