brm_235483 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,54 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large. Très beau portrait consulaire de Probus. Joli revers. Patine gris foncé aux reflets métalliques
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ERCVL-I PACIFERO/ -|-// SXXT.
Reverse description : Hercule nu, debout à gauche, tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et sa massue reposant sur son bras gauche et tenant la léonté.
Reverse translation : "Herculi Pacifero", (À Hercule qui apporte la paix).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Magnifique buste consulaire avec la toga picta et la toga palmata, ornée d’une couronne sur le plastron et d’un double losange sur l’épaule.
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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