brm_315851 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 90.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 90.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,74 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait où tous les détails de la robe consulaire sont visibles. Revers de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques. A conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe et une grande partie de son coupant d’origine
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de Georges Danicourt (Toulouse) en 1999 et de la collection D. R
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 : FIDE-S M-ILIT// VIXXT.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée debout de face tournée à gauche, tenant deux enseignes militaires.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Le vêtement consulaire est orné sur la toga palmata d’un cabochon carré orné d’un dessin géométrique bouleté et cruciforme. La toga picta est ornée sur l’épaule d’une couronne. L’épaulière est palmée. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées.
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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