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Ex Magnaguti Collection – Banti Plate Coin – Referenced in Bastien

442, Lot: 608. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Helmeted bronze (military bust) (28mm, 15.38 g, 6h). Struck AD 261. VIRTVS POSTVMI AVG, helmeted and cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield / HERC DEVSONIENSI, Hercules standing right, holding club, lion-skin and bow. RIC V 133; Bastien 113 (this coin referenced); Banti 16 (this coin referenced and illustrated). VF, brown surfaces, natural metal at high points, some green along the edge. Rare.


Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 84, Part II (21 May 2015), lot 2044; Elsen 113 (16 June 2012), lot 393; Alessandro Magnaguti Collection (Part IV, Santamaria, 15 June 1951), lot 412; Rosenberg 69 (2 December 1930), lot 2625.