brm_314433 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 55.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 55.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 280
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,54 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré à l’usure régulière. Beau portrait. Patine marron foncé granuleuse
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection F. de La Viuda
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P - AVG.
Obverse description : Buste casqué, radié et drapé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quart en avant, tenant une haste transversale sur l’épaule et un bouclier (E1 var.).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus ieux Auaguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS - PR-OBI AVG/ -|V// 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).
Commentary
Buste drapé seulement. Bouclier clouté. La marque d’officine (V) est dans le champ inférieur droit. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente.
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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