Aulus Postumius Albinus (consul 99 BC)

[4] In 110 BC, Aulus joined the staff of his older brother, the consul Spurius Postumius Albinus, as his pro-praetorian deputy (legatus pro praetore), in a military expedition against the Numidian king Jugurtha.

[5] Spurius accomplished little[6] and eventually had to return to Rome and oversee the election of next year's magistrates, leaving Aulus in charge of the Roman camp in Numidia.

[7] Problems with the elections forced Spurius to linger in Italy longer than expected, and, in early 109, despite it being winter, Aulus allowed himself to be tempted into a bold military move on his own against the town of Suthul, where Jugurtha's treasury was located.

[9] Aulus's treaty was quickly repudiated by the Roman Senate,[7] and the disaster led a tribune of the plebs to set up a commission to investigate misconduct or treasonable behavior by magistrates in the Jugurthine war.

[20] Albinus's superior, Sulla, declined to punish the murderers and address the indiscipline in the army, allegedly because he was looking forward to his candidacy for the consulship of the following year.

This coin is supposed by Joseph Hilarius Eckhel and others to refer to this Albinus. One side is a woman's head with the letters "HISPAN", perhaps a reference to his ancestor L. Albinus . The other side has a man and an eagle, a military standard; behind him the fasces with the axe, and the letters "A. POST. ABIN" (instead of "ALBIN"). [ 2 ]