E-auction 174-108221 - brm_315836 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 130 € |
| Price : | 90 € |
| Maximum bid : | 91 € |
| End of the sale : | 15 August 2016 14:40:30 |
| bidders : | 10 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,87 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait militaire de Probus. Revers de style fin bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets métalliques. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Georges Danicourt (Toulouse) en 1999 et de la collection D. R
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIRTVS PR-OBI- A-VG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Probus à gauche drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant de la main droite une haste posée sur l'épaule et un bouclier de la main gauche (E1).
Obverse translation : "Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMAE AE-TERNAE/ -|-// R.
Reverse description : Rome tenant une victoriola et un sceptre assise de face dans un temple hexastyle posé sur trois degrés, surmonté d’un fronton triangulaire orné de trois statues .
Reverse legend : G.
Reverse translation : "Romæ Æternæ” (À la Rome éternelle).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de sonargenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Le casque est radié et festonné. Le couvre nuque est orné de trois globules posés en triangle. L’égide est posée sur la cuirasse lisse. Petit pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule. Bouclier clouté. J. Guillemain a recensé quatre exemplaires dans le trésor de La Venèra. Sylviane Estiot a recensé seulement quinze exemplaires avec ce buste.
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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