Live auction - brm_364452 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 1 200 € |
| Price : | 750 € |
| Maximum bid : | 750 € |
| End of the sale : | 29 September 2015 15:04:15 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 4,35 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Exceptionnel portrait consulaire. Joli revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine foncée lissée avec des reflets métalliques. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Aufhauser 12, 1-2 octobre 1996, n° 743, de la vente Helios 5 du 25 juin 2010, n° 423 et de la collection de Daniel Compas
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (H7).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S-O-LI INVICT-O/ -|-// KA.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié debout de face, la tête à gauche dans un quadrige écartelé, levant la main droite et tenant un fouet et le globe de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : .D.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil invaincu).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Sans argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Rarissime buste avec le manteau consulaire, richement ornementé avec la toga picta et la toga palmata, une couronne sur la poitrine. Type que nous présentons pour la première fois avec cette officine ! Seulement deux exemplaires signalés d’après Sylviane Estiot en 2012.
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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