Live auction - brm_362717 - PROBUS Demi-aurelianus ou “denier”
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| Estimate : | 950 € |
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| End of the sale : | 29 September 2015 15:04:45 |
Type : Demi-aurelianus ou “denier”
Date: c. 278
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 25 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,57 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan mince ovale et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure importante, mais lisible et identifiable. Sans patine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROB-VS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Probus à droite avec l’égide sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*02).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDE-N-TIA AVG.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) drapée debout à gauche, tenant un bâton de la main droite tendue au-dessus d’un globe et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Porvidentia Augusti”, (La Providence de l’auguste.
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la vente Roma Numismatics 4 du 30 septembre 2012, n° 658. Poids extrêmement léger. Rubans de type 3. Égide posée sur la cuirasse. Grande égide sur l’épaule. Sans argenture. Avec ce type de revers, nous avons une série complète liée au donativum : aureus en or, “denier” et quinaire en billon et un grand bronze, décrit comme un as, plutôt un sesterce. L’émission normale comprend des aureliani du même type.
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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