v36_0734 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 280
Mint name / Town : Pannonie Supérieure, Siscia
Metal : billon
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,12 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, légèrement irrégulier, parfaitement centré avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait. Joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROBVS P F A-VG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une lance de la main droite, reposant sur l’épaule et un bouclier de la main gauche (E1).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Probus Pius Felix Augustus”.
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX - A-V-G-VSTI/ -|T// XXI.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout de à gauche, tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augusti”, (La Paix de l’auguste).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Casque lisse. Couvre nuque orné de trois globules posés en triangle. Cuirasse et bouclier cloutés. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type avec ce buste.
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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