Live auction - brm_495790 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 500 € |
| Price : | 150 € |
| Maximum bid : | 160 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 July 2018 15:23:22 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 280
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,67 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Magnifique buste consulaire. Revers de haut relief. Magnifique patine marron glacé avec des reflets métalliques dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection L. P
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Probus radié à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SECVRIT PERP/ -|I// VIXXI.
Reverse description : Securitas (La Sécurité) debout de face, les jambes croisées, tournée à gauche, portant son bras droit à sa tête et s'appuyant de son bras gauche sur un colonne.
Reverse translation : "Securitas Perpetua" (la Sécurité perpétuelle).
Commentary
Sans argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 avec les extrémités bouletées. Riche buste consulaire avec la toga picta et la toga palmata décorées orné d’une couronne placé sur un pectoral sur poitrine. Sur la tranche de l’épaule, nous semblons voir une scène avec un personnage agenouillé devant une entité trônant et tenant peut-être une corne d’abondance.
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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