brm_352582 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,69 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, parfaitement centré. Portrait exceptionnel. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste casqué, radié et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste de la main droite posée sur l'épaule et un bouclier de la main gauche (E1).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INVICTO/ -|-// KA.A..
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié debout de face dans un quadrige écartelé, le manteau flottant au vent, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil invincible).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Casque lisse. Cuirasse lisse avec baudrier. Petit bouclier lisse, très particulier (d’apparat). Au revers, Sol tourne la tête à gauche. Nous avions proposé un exemplaire avec l’égide couvrant la cuirasse lisse et sans P F dans MONNAIES 29, n° 416 qui s’est vendu 225€ sur un ordre à 325€.
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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