v59_0591 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 320.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 320.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,28 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait à l’usure superficielle et à la légende exceptionnelle. Joli revers de style fin bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine marron avec des reflets métalliques dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Gorny 204, n° 2512 et de la collection Daniel Compas “antoniniani et aureliani exceptionnels”
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS INVICT AVG.
Obverse description : Buste de Probus radié et cuirassé à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en arrière (B01).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Invictus Augustus", (l’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus invincible auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INVICT-O/ -|-// KA.A..
Reverse description : Sol (Le Soleil) radié debout de face dans un quadrige écartelé, levant la main droite et tenant un fouet de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil invincible).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Sans argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse lisse. Épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges larges. Petit pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule. Légende de droit tout à fait exceptionnelle avec INVICT dans la titulature du droit.
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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