v41_1067 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Pannonie Supérieure, Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,50 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type rare de revers. Portrait magnifique. Revers de haut relief inhabituel. Magnifique patine marron foncé lissée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS - PROBI AVG/ Q// XXI.
Reverse description : Probus, vêtu militairement, galopant à droite, terrassant avec sa haste, un ennemi tombé sous son cheval.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Sans argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Manteau consulaire richement décoré avec la toga picta et la toga palmata, ornée d’une ligne brisée pointée, l’épaule décorée avec un losange pointé.
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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