v41_1008 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 276
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,35 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 5e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait de toute beauté. Revers inhabituel. Jolie patine gris foncé avec des reflets métalliques. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite, avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDE-S MIL-IT/ -|-// XXIE.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant un sceptre de la main droite et une enseigne transversale de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse cloutée. Épaulière lisse. Ptéryges fines. Très beau buste (B01).
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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