brm_249522 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: mi - fin
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,83 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Beau portrait. Frappe molle au revers avec une faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques, légèrement tachée
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS. P. F. AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES - MILITVM// III.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) debout de face tournée à gauche, tenant deux enseignes militaires.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse lisse. Épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges larges.
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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