brm_315852 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 95.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 95.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,42 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large, parfaitement centré avec les grènetis complets. Très beau portrait de Probus. Revers de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant de frappe
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de ROME V, n° 189 et de la collection D. R
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus radié à droite l’égide sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B02).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus".
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELI-CITAS SEC// SXXT.
Reverse description : Felicitas (La Félicité) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant un caducée de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Felicitas Saeculi" (La Félicité du Siècle).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse cloutée et épaulière ornée d’une palme. Ptéryges fines.
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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