v32_0492 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Italie, Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,72 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté. Revers fantastique de haut relief. Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés
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 Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : RESTIT-VT - SEC// VIXXT (SIC !).
Reverse description : L'Empereur debout tourné vers la gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche, couronné par la Victoire, derrière lui, tenant une palme de la main gauche et une longue javeline de la main droite.
Reverse translation : "Restitutor Sæculi", (Au Restaurateur du siècle).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. AU revers faute avec SEC au lieu de SAEC.
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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