brm_952776 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: 281
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,93 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Buste finement détaillé. Avec une partie de son argenture. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIRTVS PROBI INVICTI AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite et un bouclier de la main gauche (E1).
Obverse translation : "Virtus Probi Invicti Augusti" (La Virilité de Probus l’invincible auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SECVRIT PERP/ -|I// VIXXI.
Reverse description : Securitas (La Sécurité) debout de face, les jambes croisées, tournée à gauche, portant son bras droit à sa tête et s'appuyant de son bras gauche sur une colonne.
Reverse translation : "Securitas Perpetua" (La Sécurité perpétuelle).
Commentary
Au droit, la titulature est tout à fait inhabituelle, associée à un buste militaire.
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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