Aureus - Postumus VICT GERM P M TR P V COS III P P

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.