Live auction - brm_766652 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 500 € |
| Price : | 250 € |
| Maximum bid : | 270 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 February 2024 14:43:49 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Date: 277-278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,66 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, complet des deux côtés et bien centré avec les grènetis complets. Très beau portrait de haut relief. Revers de style fin. Infimes petites oxydations rougeâtres de surface. Patine gris métallique
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection J. S
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIRTVS PR-OBI - AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant un sceptre de la main droite placé sur l'épaule et un bouclier orné d’un cavalier (E1).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIR-T-V-S AVG/ -|-// IIII.
Reverse description : Mars, casqué, vêtu militairement, debout à gauche, tenant une Victoriola de la main droite et un sceptre long et un bouclier de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti”, (La Virilité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Avec toute son argenture. Le Docteur Bastien avait répertorié sept exemplaires en 1976 dont trois avec cette césure particulière VIRTVS PRO-BI - AVG. Le bouclier orné et clouté est décoré d’une scène représentant Probus galopant à droite terrassant un ennemi couché sous son cheval. Le casque est orné de nombreux globules sur la visière et la partie supérieure du casque.
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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