Postumus CE 259-268
Bi. Antoninianus, 3.19 g, 19 x 20 mm, 12h, Cologne mint, c. CE 260-265.
RSC 215b
RCV 10966
O: rad., cuirassed bust r, IMP C POSTVMVS PF AVG
R: Pax stg. l holding scepter with r. arm outstretched PAX AVG
as with all these examples the reverse die appears to exhibit more wear than the obs. die.
Gallienus CE 253-268 (sole reign CE 260-268)
AE Antoninianus, 2.48 g, 18 x 20 mm, 12h, Roma mint, CE 262-263
RSC 265
O: rad bust r, GALLIENVS AVG
R: Fortuna stg l, holding rudder and cornucopia, FORTVNA REDVX with S in lower right field.
Victorinus CE 269-271
AE Antoninianus, 2.44 g, 19 mm, 6h, Mainz or Trier mint, CE 270-271.
RCV 11176
O: rad cuir. bust r. IMP C VICTORINVS PF AVG
R: Pietas stg l sacrificing over altar and holding box of incense, PIETAS AVG.
a very nice portrait of Victorinus even with the adhesion from the hoard.
Anne S. Robertson records this hoard in her "An Inventory of Romano-British Coin Hoards" as #726 (p. 168).
The hoard was found c. 1832 and reported by Sir Henry Bunbury in 1833. Robertson further notes that in 1953, "the coins...were cleaned, and found to comprise 1 den, and 1285 ant".
The earliest coin in the find was a denarius of Caracalla the latest was a radiate of Aurelian, with the overwhelming majority coming from the reigns of Tetricus I & II (approximately half the remaining hoard) and then Victorinus and Claudius II (about a quarter of the hoard), with Gallienus rounding out the hoard with 182 examples as well as small numbers of rarer examples such as Marius and the like. There were a number of barbarous radiates also noted from the hoard.
Robertson recorded the hoard in detail in the Numismatic Chronicle 1954, pp. 40-52, with a plate recording the barbarous examples.
