brm_816199 - PROBUS Aurelianus
150.00 €(Approx. 154.50$ | 124.50£)
Quantity
Add to your cart
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,16 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur un flan fin et large, idéalement centré. Joli buste de l’empereur à l’usure fine et régulière. De jolis détails au revers. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à gauche avec la lance sur l’épaule (F5).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDE-S M-ILIT/ -|-// VIXXT.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une enseigne dans chaque main.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Légende tout à fait inhabituel pour ce type de buste. Ce type semble manquer aux ouvrages de référence.
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.
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sell
Full data
Your Recently Viewed Items
PROBUS Aurelianus XF
150.00 €
cgbfr.com numismatists
