brm_421314 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,44 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Probus. Revers de style fin bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste, radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus radié à droite, avec cuirasse, 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 : CONCORD AVG/ -|-// SXXT.
Reverse description : Concordia (La Concorde) debout tournée à droite, tenant dans chaque main une enseigne militaire, face à Sol (Le Soleil) tourné à gauche, la main droite levée et tenant un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Augusti”, (La Concorde de l’auguste).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum.
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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