v29_0403 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 29 (2007)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Pannonie Supérieure, Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 5,37 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et épais, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Frappe molle au droit sur le drapé. Revers de style fin. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets métalliques mordorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROBVS INV AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Probus Invictus Augustus", (L’empereur Probus invincible auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELICITAS AVG/ -|A// XXI.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite au-dessus d'un autel et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Augusti”, (La Félicité de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids exceptionnellement lourd pour un aurelianus. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Le coin de droit est bouché comme sur l’exemplaire de MONNAIES XXI, n° 3340. Rubans de type 3.
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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