brm_954409 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: 280
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,23 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée présentant un superbe buste, finement détaillé. Revers à l’usure régulière. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste de Probus radié à gauche, avec cuirasse, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste posée sur l'épaule et un bouclier.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS PROBI AVG/ -|S// XXI.
Reverse description : Mars nu et casqué marchant à droite, le manteau flottant sur l'épaule gauche, tenant un trophée posé sur son épaule gauche et une haste transversale de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
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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