v55_0260 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 55 (2012)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 280.00 €
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 280.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,34 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan extrêmement large et complet des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Portrait magnifique avec la toga picta et la toga palmata. Revers de toute beauté. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés. Aurelianus ayant conservé l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES 31, n° 512
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PRO-BVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Probus radié à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Probus Augustus", (L’empereur Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INVIC-TO/ -|-// R*B.
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
Exemplaire de poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Rubans de type 1. Buste consulaire richement décoré avec la toga picta et la toga palmata ornée d’une couronne.
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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