Live auction - brm_744633 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 2 500 € |
| Price : | 1 750 € |
| Maximum bid : | 1 750 € |
| End of the sale : | 07 June 2022 15:40:03 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Date: 277-278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,28 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire, idéalement centré. Buste exceptionnel, de toute beauté, finement détaillé. La monnaie a conservé son argenture superficielle
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection J. S
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIRTVS PROBI AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé, à mi-corps de Probus à droite avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste sur l’épaule droite et un bouclier vu de l’intérieur de la main gauche (F6).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES -M-ILITVM/ -|-// III.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une enseigne militaire dans chaque main.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldat).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse lisse ornée de cinq points posés en carré et centré. Épaulière cloutée. Toutes petites ptéryges. Le buste F6 est l’un des plus rares de tout le monnayage lyonnais de Probus (sept exemplaires connus au total) comme le fait très justement remarquer Daniel Compas.
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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