HERC DEVSONIENSI

442, Lot: 607. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Laureate bronze (‘Sol greeting’ bust) (30.5mm, 16.43 g, 5h). Struck AD 261. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left, raising right hand / HERC DEVSONIENSI, Hercules standing right, holding club, lion-skin, and bow. RIC V 132 var. (rev. type); Bastien 118; Banti 15 note, referring to Cohen 96. VF, dark green patina, some red brown deposits. A few very minor cleaning marks. Rare.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 216 (15 October 2013), lot 3228.