v29_0389 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 29 (2007)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 279
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,72 g.
Officine: 4e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan extrêmement large avec les grènetis complet des deux côtés. Magnifique portrait de haut relief. Revers de toute beauté. Très jolie patine grise avec des reflets métalliques ayant conservé son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PRO-BVS 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 Probus Augustus”, (L'empereur Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ADVENT-VS AVG/ -|-// R(CROISSANT POINTÉ).
Reverse description : L'empereur à cheval, galopant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un sceptre de la gauche ; devant lui, un captif assis, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse legend : D.
Reverse translation : “Adventus Augusti”, (L'Arrivée de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. La cuirasse lisse est ornée de l’égide et de la tête de Méduse. Épaulière cloutée et ptéryges longues et fines. Rubans de type 3.
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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