Live auction - brm_478793 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 350 € |
| Price : | 225 € |
| Maximum bid : | 230 € |
| End of the sale : | 05 June 2018 14:43:18 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: janvier - août
Date: 282
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,33 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type monétaire sur un flan mince, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Probus. Revers de haut relief bien venu à la frappe. Magnifique patine gris métallique avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Philippe Lacoste
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS P F 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 Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIAET-AS AVG/ -|C// -.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) voilée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant une boîte à encens (acerra) de la main gauche et de la droite, une patère, sacrifiant au-dessus d'un autel allumé.
Reverse translation : “Piætas Augusti”, (La Piété de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids excessivement léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines et tombantes. La légende ne semble pas ponctuée au droit. C’est le deuxième exemplaire signalé. Manque à la collection du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF. Prendra le numéro 410 alpha b dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
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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