brm_954536 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 3,85 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Belle monnaie frappée sur flan large et centré. Au droit, un beau buste finement détaillé. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VI-RTVS PROBI AVG.
Obverse description : Buste héroïque radié et nu de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en arrière, tenant une haste pointée sur l'épaule nue et un bouclier rectangulaire, l’égide visible sur l’autre épaule (F8).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti” (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONSE-RVAT AVG/ -|-// TXXT.
Reverse description : Sol nu debout à droite, la tête radiée tournée à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tourné à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Conservatori Augusti” (Au Protecteur de l’auguste).
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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