E-auction 77-38001 - brm_173096 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 125 € |
| Price : | 126 € |
| Maximum bid : | 136 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 October 2014 15:31:00 |
| bidders : | 8 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: novembre - décembre
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,43 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince, large, ovale et irrégulier. Beau portrait. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite, avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ORIE-S AVG/ -|-// I (SIC !).
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) nu, le manteau flottant sur l’épaule, marchant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, de chaque côté, un captif assis dos à dos, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Oriens Augusti”, (L'Orient de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Sans argenture. Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse lisse. Épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges fines. Au revers, notre aurelianus présente comme les deux exemplaires de la collection Missong du Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne, une faute d’orthographe de la légende avec ORIES AVG au lieu d’ORIENS AVG. Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire de la collection Missong du Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne (n° 52095), Bastien n° 164c, pl. XIX. C’est le cinquième exemplaire signalé de cette rare variété. Prendra le numéro 164n dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
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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