brm_766601 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Date: 277-278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,38 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, centré des deux côtés. Très beau revers ainsi qu’un buste agréable. Avec une partie de son argenture. Patine grise
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Exemplaire provenant de la collection J. S
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIRTVS PROBI A-VG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant avec le sceptre sur l’épaule droite et tenant le bouclier de la main gauche orné d’une tête de Méduse (F).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TEMPO-R FELICI/ -|-// I.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée, debout à droite, tenant un caducée long de la main droite et une corne d'abondance relevée de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Temporum Felicitas”, (La Félicité du temps).
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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