Live auction - brm_373622 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 1 500 € |
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| End of the sale : | 15 December 2015 14:44:03 |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,49 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan ovale et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait tout à fait exceptionnel. Frappe molle au revers. Patine marron foncé
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Helios 2, 25 et 26 novembre 2008, n° 421
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS - P F AVG.
Obverse description : Grand buste héroïque radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant de la main droite, la lance pointée en avant et un bouclier de la main gauche (F13).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Augustus" (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDEN-T AVG/ -|-// XXIS.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence drapée) debout à gauche, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche et un globe de la main droite.
Reverse translation : "Providentia Augusti" (La Providence de l'empereur).
Commentary
Poids léger. Sans argenture. Grand buste héroïque. Ptéryges larges sous le grand paludamentum. Buste tout à fait exceptionnel et inédit. C’est un unicum absolu. Seul est connu l’exemplaire du Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne avec le même coin de droit et le revers associé: SALVS AVG/ -|-// XXIS (information de S. Estiot en 2008).
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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