brm_162420 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,22 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un très beau flan. Frappe molle au droit, mais sans usure. Revers de toute beauté servi par une magnifique patine grise avec des reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H4).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Augustus" (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INVICTO// KA..
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié debout de face dans un quadrige écartelé, levant la main droite et tenant un fouet de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : G..
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil invaincu).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Légèrement tréflé sur le buste au droit. Type de buste beaucoup plus rare (H4). Seulement un exemplaire sans marque de la troisième émission dans ROME V, n° 459 (190 €).
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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