v41_1031 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Pannonie supérieure, Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,35 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait inhabituel. Joli revers. Patine marron glacé avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant de la main droite une haste posée sur l'épaule et un bouclier (F1).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INVICTO - AVG/ -|-// XXIQ.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié, montant dans un quadrige vu de face, deux chevaux allant de chaque côté, tenant un globe de la main gauche et un fouet de la droite.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil invincible de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec des traces d’argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 2 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et bouclier cloutés.
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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