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brm_306625 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 350.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 280
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,23 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait consulaire inhabituel de Probus. Revers de style fin. Jolie patine vert olive foncé avec des reflets métalliques
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Helios en 2012 et de la collection Daniel Compas “antoniniani et aureliani exceptionnels”
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROBVS P F A-VG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H4).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Probus ieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS AVG/ -|V// XXI.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) debout de face tournée à droite, drapée, nourrissant un serpent qu'elle tient dans ses bras.
Reverse translation : “Salus Augusti”, (La Santé de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Sans argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 1aux extrémités bouletées. Riche robe consulaire avec la toga picta et la toga palmata. Césure de légende de droit inhaibtuelle. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente qui semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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