brm_960635 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: 279
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,91 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe monnaie sur flan large et centré, éclaté à dix heures. Magnifique buste de l’empereur au droit, légèrement trefflé. De superbes détails au revers. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PRO-BVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Probus Augustus", (L’empereur Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOL-I I-NVICT-O// R(CROISSANT POINTÉ)B.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié montant dans un quadrige au galop à gauche, tenant un globe de la main gauche et un fouet de la droite.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil invincible).
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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