brm_168821 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 140.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 140.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,88 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan ovale parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait de haut relief où tous les poils de barbe sont visibles. Revers de toute beauté avec une petite faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CON-CORD - A-VG// SXXT.
Reverse description : Concordia et Sol debout face à face ; la Concorde est debout à gauche, tournée à droite, tenant une enseigne militaire dans chaque main ; Sol debout à droite, tourné à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Augusti”, (La Concorde de l’auguste).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Ptéryges 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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