E-auction 209-136041 - brm_314598 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 45 € |
| Price : | 12 € |
| Maximum bid : | 13 € |
| End of the sale : | 17 April 2017 14:23:00 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 279
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,02 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large et bien centré. Joli portrait et beau revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PRO-BVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite, avec l’égide posée sur la cuirasse nue, l’égide sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B05) ; buste héroïque.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ADVEN-TVS AVG// R(CROISSANT)Z.
Reverse description : L'empereur à cheval, galopant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un sceptre de la gauche ; devant lui, un captif assis, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Adventus Augusti”, (L'arrivée de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges larges. Épaulière ornée d’une palme. La cuirasse est recouverte de l’égide et d’une minuscule tête de Méduse. Portrait très particulier, avec la cuirasse lisse, vu à mi corps, héroïque. L’égide est posée sur la cuirasse lisse (lorica, chalcochiton) ou cuirasse ornée des empereurs ou des généraux.
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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