v21_3352 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 280
Mint name / Town : Phénicie, Tripoli (Tripolis)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,50 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,86 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Frappe légèrement molle au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CLEMENTIA T-EMP/ (CROISSANT)// KA.
Reverse description : Probus et Jupiter debout face à face ; Probus est debout à gauche, tourné à droite, vêtu militairement, tenant un sceptre, “scipio” ; Jupiter est nu debout à droite tourné à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant un sceptre long de la main gauche, tendant un globe à l’empereur.
Reverse translation : "Clementia Temporum", (La Clémence des temps).
Commentary
Rare production de l’atelier de Tripoli.
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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