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Aureus - Postumus VICT GERM P M TR P V COS III P P
| Issuer | Gallic Empire (Roman splinter states) |
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| Year | 263 |
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| Value | Aureus (25⁄2) |
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| Obverse description | Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Postumus facing right, wearing a crested Corinthian helmet pushed back on his head, with a short beard visible. The emperor is depicted in full military guise, the helmet adorned with a crest and cheek-guards partially visible. The encircling legend reads POSTVMVS AVG, distributed around the bust within a beaded border. The coin bears a piercing hole at the top of the flan, indicating ancient or later use as a pendant or jewelry piece. The style is characteristic of the Lugdunum mint during the early Gallic Empire period. |
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| Obverse lettering | POSTVMVS AVG |
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Postumus declared his Gallic Empire in 260 AD after executing Salenius, the son of the captured emperor Gallienus, and proceeded to hold the Rhine frontier against Germanic incursions with enough success to claim the title Germanicus Maximus. The VICT GERM reverse celebrates precisely these campaigns. His fifth tribunician power and third consulship date this piece to 263, by which point Postumus had governed his breakaway state for three years with striking administrative competence — issuing coinage, holding the consulship annually, and maintaining orthodox Roman institutional forms.
The Schulte 72 classification places this among the tighter-documented aurei of his reign. Calicó 3784 cross-referencing confirms the type's relative scarcity compared to his antoninianus output, which vastly outpaced gold production.