v59_0577 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 279
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,33 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 4e
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait inhabituel de Probus. Revers rare bien venu à la frappe malgré une usure superficielle. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Gorny 181, n° 2421 et de la collection Daniel Compas “antoniniani et aureliani exceptionnels”
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (B1).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TRI P COS III P P/ -|-// XXIQ.
Reverse description : Lion marchant à droite, tenant un foudre dans sa gueule.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul tertium Pater Patriæ", (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse cloutée. Ptéryges larges. Pas d’épaulière visible. Revers inhabituel et énigmatique. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. Sylviane Estiot ne connaît qu’un autre exemplaire de ce type avec le buste (B1).
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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