brm_319097 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 300.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 300.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,76 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire idéalement centré sur un flan ovale et épais. Superbe portrait et remarquable revers rare et recherché ! Patine gris foncé
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant d’une collection du XIXe siècle qui n’est jamais réapparue sur le marché depuis ! Avec sa pochette d’origine
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TRI P COS II P P// XXIS.
Reverse description : Lion marchant à gauche, devant lui, à gauche, une tête de boeuf.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunia Potestate Consul iterum Pater Patriae", (Grand pontife détenteur de la puissance tribunitienne Consul pour la deuxième fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids très lourd ! Type que nous présentons pour la première fois à la vente !.
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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