v41_1001 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Pannonie supérieure, Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,88 g.
Officine: 2e
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, légèrement fendu à 11 heures au revers, parfaitement centré avec les grènetis complets. Portrait magnifique. Joli revers inhabituel. Belle patine grise avec des reflets marron glacé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ABVNDA-NTIA AVG/ -|-// XXIS.
Reverse description : Abundantia (l'Abondance) drapée debout à gauche, tenant de la main gauche une corne d'abondance qu'elle déverse et tendant la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Abundantia Augusti”, (L'Abondance de l'auguste).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse cloutée. Épaulière ornée d’une palme. Ptéryges larges. Buste B “classique”. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente.
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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