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Antoninianus - Postumus LAETITIA AVG, Lugdunum
| Issuer | Gallic Empire |
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| Year | 260-261 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A Roman war galley depicted moving to the left, rendered with oars extended and occasionally with sails raised, crewed by four or five rowers with a steersman at the helm. The vessel's hull and rigging are rendered in fine detail typical of Lugdunese workshop production. The reverse legend LAETITIA AVG, meaning 'the Joy of the Emperor,' is distributed in the field around the galley, with AVG appearing in the exergue. |
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| Reverse lettering | LAETITIA AVG |
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Postumus seized power in 260 AD after executing Saloninus, the son of Gallienus, at Cologne — an act that simultaneously announced his usurpation and made reconciliation with the central empire impossible. His Gallic breakaway state, covering the Rhine provinces, Britain, and Spain at its peak, required an immediate and credible coinage to pay the legions whose loyalty he had just purchased with that same act of violence. Lugdunum was a natural choice for early production, with its long mint history and distance from Gallienus's reach.
RIC V.2 #73 belongs to his first emission, 260–261, before the Cologne mint dominated output.