v45_0600 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Thrace, Serdica
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,65 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince et large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Beau portrait avec un portrait particulier. Joli revers de style fin. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F INVICTVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Invictus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CLEMENTIA T-EMP/ *// KA.A..
Reverse description : L'empereur en habit militaire debout à droite, tenant le scipio de la main gauche ; en face, Jupiter, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche et lui offrant un globe.
Reverse translation : "Clementia Temporum" (La Clémence des temps).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum . C’est la première fois que nous proposons un aurelianus avec INVICTVS. Semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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