v31_0521 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Italie, Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,82 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 5e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Exemplaire sans trace de circulation, mais de frappe molle. Beau portrait. Joli revers. Patine marron glacé avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONSE-RVAT// VXXT.
Reverse description : Probus vêtu militairement debout à gauche, tourné à droite, tenant le scipio de la main gauche recevant un globe de la main de Jupiter nu debout à droite, tourné à gauche, tenant un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori”, (À Jupiter conservateur).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Portrait inhabituel pour la quatrième émission. Rubans de type 3.
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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