Exceptional Military Bust

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 737. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Postumus. Romano-Gallic Emperor, AD 260-269. Æ Sestertius (18.67 g, 6h). Mint I (Trier). 3rd emission, AD 261. VIRTVS POSTV-MI AVG, cuirassed and draped bust right, wearing ornate crested helmet with visor / VICT-OR-IA AVG, Victory advancing left, holding wreath in right hand and palm frond in left, treading down bound captive seated left. RIC V 171; Mairat -; Bastien, Postume 111; Banti 65; Cohen 388. EF, dark green patina. Exceptional bust.

Banti records only one specimen of this extraordinary type.