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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="P"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="postumus-bio-4" n="postumus_4"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Po'stumus</surname></persName></head><p>son of the foregoing, is mentioned by Trebellius Pollio, who presses in his name to swell
      the number of the 30 tyrants, stating that having received first the title of Caesar, and
      subsequently that of Augustus, he was slain along with his father. But when we recollect that
      notwithstanding the multitude of coins still existing of the elder Postumus, not one has been
      found commemorating the dignities of the younger, we are led with Eckhel to doubt the
      testimony of a writer notoriously inaccurate, and to conclude that no such person ever
      existed, or at all events that he was never invested with the title of Augustus or Caesar.
      (Trebell. Pollio. <hi rend="ital">Trig. Tyr.</hi> iii.; Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 447.) It must
      not, however, be concealed, that in addition to the pieces described by Goltzius, which every
      numismatologist rejects as spurious, there are to be found in some cabinets two very rare
      medals, one in gold, the other in billon, bearing upon the obverse the head of the elder
      Postumus, with the legend <hi rend="smallcaps">IMP. C. POSTUMUS. P. F. AUG.</hi>, and on the
      reverse the bust of a more juvenile personage, with a radiated crown, and the words <hi rend="smallcaps">INVICTO. AUG.</hi> Whether we are justified in regarding this as a
      representation of the younger Postumus, is a question which can hardly be answered with
      certainty, but the arguments adduced to prove the affirmative are far from being conclusive.
      (See Mionnet, <hi rend="ital">Medailles Romaines,</hi> vol. ii. p. 70.) A cut of the billon
      coin is placed below. </p><p><figure/></p><byline>[<ref target="author.W.R">W.R</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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