brm_314422 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,18 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage ayant conservé son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine. Portrait de style fin où tous les détails sont visibles. Revers magnifique de haut relief. Patine grise extraordinaire avec des reflets métalliques mordorés
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection F. de La Viuda
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste de Probus casqué et radié à gauche, avec cuirasse, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste posée sur l'épaule et un bouclier (E1).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS PROBI AVG/ -|-// K A.B..
Reverse description : L'empereur à cheval, galopant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un sceptre de la gauche ; devant lui, un captif assis, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Casque clouté. Couvre nuque orné de cinq globules posés en carré. Cuirasse avec l’égide et le gorgoneion. Bouclier orné d’un cavalier terrassant un soldat. Haste et non pas sceptre.
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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