E-auction 69-33295 - brm_173108 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 95 € |
| Price : | 36 € |
| Maximum bid : | 55 € |
| End of the sale : | 11 August 2014 15:21:30 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: novembre - décembre
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,35 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire bien centré. Magnifique portrait. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Très jolie patine grise avec des reflets métalliques mordorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite, avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ORIE-NS AVG/ -|-// III.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) debout à droite tenant un rameau de la main droite et un arc de la main gauche et posant le pied gauche sur un prisonnier agenouillé à droite.
Reverse translation : “Oriens Augusti”, (L’Orient de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse lisse. Épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges fines. Sur notre exemplaire, le guerrier est allongé. Début de cassure de coin perceptible au revers, au niveau du manteau flottant. Même coin de revers que les exemplaires du Cabinet de médailles de la BnF (n° 12.551), Bastien, n° 169a, pl. XX et que l’exemplaire de la collection Missong du Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne (n° 52.087), Bastien, n° 169e, pl. XX. Prendra le numéro 169g dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
Historical background
PROBUS
(06-07/276-09/282)
Probus was born on August 19, 232 in Sirmium. He led a brilliant military career during the reigns between Valerian I and Tacitus. Commander of the army of the East on the death of Tacitus, he was immediately proclaimed emperor and easily triumphed over Florian, who was assassinated. The situation is serious. The Rhine-Danubian limes gave way under the pressure of the Germanic invasions. Probus restores peace in Gaul, in Germania then in Rhaetia where he inflicts a severe defeat on the Germanic peoples, in Thrace where he crushes the Sarmatians and the Scythians, in Asia Minor which he cleans of looters and Pamphylian pirates, finally in Africa where he ends the incursions of the Blemmyes. In 280, he signed peace with Vahram II, Sassanid monarch. He must face the usurpations of Saturnin, Bonose and Proculus. Probus, having triumphed over all his adversaries, returned to Rome in 281 and celebrated his victories. Before preparing a new expedition against the Sassanids, he fell under the blows of his own soldiers at Sirmium in 282.
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