brm_315821 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Price : 650.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 650.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Date: 277-278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,04 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et complet des deux côtés. Patine noire épaisse. Très beau portrait consulaire. Revers bien venu à la frappe
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Lanz 114, 26 mai 2003, n° 723, de la collection Daniel Compas, MONNAIES XXVII, n° 47, de ROME XX et de la colelction D. R
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à gauche avec la trabea, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et la mappa de la main gauche (H6).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES MIL-ITVM/ -|-// III.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant dans chaque main une enseigne militaire.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Sans argenture. Rubans de type 3. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection P.-F. Jacquier, Bastien n° 231(alpha)a, pl. VIII. C’est le deuxième exemplaire recensé, donc de la plus grande rareté. Prendra le numéro 231(alpha)b 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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