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Type : Aurelianus
Date: 279
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,35 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Usure importante, mais exemplaire parfaitement identifiable. Patine noire
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste casqué, radié et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant avec lance sur épaule droite et tenant un bouclier de la main gauche.
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TRI P COS III P P// XXIQ.
Reverse description : Lion marchant à droite, tenant un foudre dans sa gueule.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul tertium Pater Patriæ", (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul pour la troisième fois père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids léger. Sans argenture. Casque lisse. Cuirasse et bouclier cloutés. Revers énigmatique et inhabituel.
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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