Live auction - brm_495795 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 350 € |
| Price : | 225 € |
| Maximum bid : | 225 € |
| End of the sale : | 29 January 2019 14:52:12 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 280
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,33 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur u fn flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Beau buste de Probus. Frappe légèrement molle au revers. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets rougeâtres Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection L. P
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste de Probus radié à droite, avec cuirasse, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX A-VGVSTI/ -|S// XXI.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant une branche d'olivier dans la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la gauche.
Reverse translation : (La Paix conférée par l'Empereur).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Poids lourd. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Épaulière et cuirasse cloutée. Ptéryges larges. Égide sur l’épaule gauche. Ce type sembe beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous le présentons à la vente.
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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