v32_0493 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Italie, Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,27 g.
Officine: 1re
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et épais, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait élancé de Probus de toute beauté. Revers de style fin et de haut relief. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés. A conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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 : CONCORD - MILIT// PXXT.
Reverse description : Probus et la Concorde debout face à face se donnant la main.
Reverse translation : "Concordia Militum", (La Concorde des soldats).
Commentary
Poids extrêmement lourd pour ce type. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. L’égide est posée sur la cuirasse lisse. Épaulière ornée d’une palme. Ptéryges larges.
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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