Live auction - brm_766595 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 800 € |
| Price : | 500 € |
| Maximum bid : | 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 February 2024 14:39:05 |
| bidders : | 4 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Date: 277-278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,28 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Extraordinaire exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté, vigoureux et d’une finesse rare. Superbe revers. Patine grise
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection J. S
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIRTVS PRO-B-I AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Probus à gauche drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste posée sur l'épaule et un bouclier (E1).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TEMPO-R FELICI/ -|-// I.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée, debout à droite, tenant un caducée long de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Temporum Felicitas”, (La Félicité des temps).
Commentary
Ce type de buste est l’un des plus rares de Probus pour l’atelier de Lyon. Casque clouté et décoré. Couvre nuque orné de cinq globules. Cuirasse cloutée. Bouclier à bordure festonné lisse. Type complètement inédit avec cette césure particulière au 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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