v34_0798 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 281
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,79 g.
Officine: 5e
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire parfaitement centré des deux côtés sur un petit flan. Beau portrait. Revers de haut relief. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques. Aurelianus ayant conservé son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROB-VS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite avec l’égide sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B02).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES M-ILITVM// R(FOUDRE)E.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée debout de face tournée à gauche, tenant deux enseignes militaires.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse lisse avec l’égide centrée d’une minuscule méduse. Épaulière cloutée et décorée. Ptéryges larges terminées par des lanières bouletées.
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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