E-auction 140-80064 - brm_304396 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 90 € |
| Price : | 21 € |
| Maximum bid : | 22 € |
| End of the sale : | 21 December 2015 14:24:30 |
| bidders : | 8 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,71 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait tout à fait inhabituel. Joli revers. Patine gris foncé aux reflets métalliques
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite, avec l’égide posée sur la cuirasse nue, le pan de paludamentum et l’égide sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B04) ; buste héroïque.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : HERCV-L-I P-ACIF/ -|-// SXXT.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à gauche tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et sa massue reposant sur son bras gauche et tenant la léonté.
Reverse translation : “Herculi Pacifero”, (A Hercule qui apporte la paix).
Commentary
Avec une partie de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 2 aux extrémités bouletées. Portrait très particulier, avec la cuirasse lisse, vu à mi corps, héroïque. Ptéryges cloutées et larges. L’égide est posée sur la cuirasse lisse (lorica, chalcochiton) ou cuirasse ornée des empereurs ou des généraux. La léonté est également très particulière !.
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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