v34_0807 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Mysie, Cyzique
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,60 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale irrégulier. Beau portrait inhabituel de l’empereur. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIRTVS PR-OBI - AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant de la main droite une haste posée sur l'épaule gauche et un bouclier de la main gauche (E1).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ADVENTVS PROBI AVG.
Reverse description : L'empereur à cheval, galopant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un sceptre de la gauche ; devant lui, un captif assis, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Adventus Probi Augusti”, (L'Arrivée de Probus auguste).
Commentary
Sans argenture. Émission sans marque d’atelier ni d’officine. La cuirasse est lisse avec l’égide posée dessus. Le bouclier est orné d’un cavalier galopant à droite terrassant plusieurs ennemis.
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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