442, Lot: 596. Estimate $75. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Lot of two (2) coins.
596a Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (18.5mm, 2.48 g, 5h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint, 3rd officina. Group IV (AD 267-268). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PAX EQVITVM, Pax standing left, holding olive branch and sceptre; T in exergue. AGK 57 (s); RIC V 381; Cunetio 2498. VF, brown surfaces, flan crack.
Bought from A. D. Hamilton, Glasgow, 1984. Reportedly ex Anderson collection. 596b Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Antoninianus (20.5mm, 3.33 g, 7h). Mediolanum (Milan) mint. Group IV (AD 267-268). IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS EQVITVM, Hercules standing right, holding lionskin and resting club on rock. AGK 113 (r1); RIC V 389; Cunetio 2497. VF, silvering, some weakness of strike on portrait.
Bought from Manton Associates, 1995. . .