brm_731853 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: mi - fin
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,06 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée des deux côtés. Superbe buste de Probus. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
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 : ADVENT-VS PROBI AVG/ -|-// I.
Reverse description : Probus, vêtu militairement, le manteau flottant derrière, à cheval à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un sceptre long de la main gauche ; devant l’antérieur droit, un captif assis à gauche, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Adventus Probi Augusti”, (L’arrivée de Probus auguste).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse et épaulière lisse. Ptéryges fines. Légende ponctuée au droit. Le Docteur Bastien n’avait relevé que dix exemplaires dans son corpus en 1976.
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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