v28_0349 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 28 (2007)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: début
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Pannonie Supérieure, Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,64 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 6e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large, fendu à 12 heures au droit. Frappe molle au revers. Patine noire
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste posée sur l'épaule et un bouclier (E1).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR - P C-OS P P/ -|-// XXIVI.
Reverse description : L'empereur lauré, en habit militaire, debout à gauche, entre deux enseignes militaires, la main droite levée et tenant un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul Pater Patriæ", (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
Commentary
Casque orné et clouté. Cuirasse et bouclier cloutés. L’empereur tient bien une haste.
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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