v55_0261 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 55 (2012)
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 281
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,28 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Très beau buste consulaire. Joli revers de haut relief. Belle patine grise avec des reflets métalliques. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : PROBV-S P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Probus radié à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : "Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMAE - AETER/ -|-// R (FOUDRE) .
Reverse description : Rome assise dans un temple à six colonnes, tenant une victoriola et un sceptre.
Reverse legend : D.
Reverse translation : "Romæ Æternæ", (À Rome Eternelle).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Buste consulaire richement décoré avec la toga picta et la toga palmata, orné d’un double losange. Titulature courte de la légende de droit.
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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