Live auction - brm_520811 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 2 800 € |
| Price : | 1 950 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 000 € |
| End of the sale : | 05 March 2019 15:00:15 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,90 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie exceptionnelle avec un buste incroyable n’ayant qu’une fine usure toute superficielle. Joli revers fin. Patine marron avec de l’argenture encore présente, notamment au droit
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIRTVS PROBI AV-G.
Obverse description : Buste casqué, radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main gauche et levant la main droite en adlocutio (D4).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti” (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : M-ARS - VI-CTOR/ -|-// II.
Reverse description : Mars nu et casqué, le manteau sur l’épaule flottant au vent, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite et un trophée reposant sur l’épaule gauche.
Reverse translation : “Mars Victor” (Mars Victorieux).
Commentary
Le docteur Bastien ne relève que trois exemplaires dans son corpus en 1976. Même coin de droit que les exemplaires du Cabinet des Médailles de la BNF, du British Museum et du Kunsthistorishes Museum de Vienne, Bastien n° 222a, b et c, pl. XXVII. C’est le buste le plus spectaculaire de l’atelier de Lyon : il est également parmi les plus rares.
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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