Live auction - brm_394319 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 750 € |
| Price : | no bid |
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| End of the sale : | 28 June 2016 15:29:58 |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,71 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type sur un flan très large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Très beau portrait de haut relief de Probus. Revers bien venu à la frappe, finement détaillé. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Helios 7 des 12 et 13 décembre 2011, n° 911 et de la collection Daniel Compas
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS PIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste casqué, radié et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste de la main droite posée sur l'épaule et un bouclier de la main gauche (E1).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INVICTO/ -|-// KA.A..
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié debout de face dans un quadrige écartelé, le manteau flottant au vent, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil invincible).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Casque pointé. Cuirasse lisse avec baudrier. Grand bouclier lisse à bordure festonnée avec umbo central. Au revers, Sol tourne la tête à gauche. Ce type avec la légende PIVS est beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous le proposons à la vente.
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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