v21_3354 - PROBUS Demi-aurelianus ou “denier”
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 950.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 1 510.00 €
Starting price : 950.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 950.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 1 510.00 €
Type : Demi-aurelianus ou “denier”
Date: c. 278
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 25 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,38 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage. Patine vert olive foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROB-VS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTOR-IA GERM.
Reverse description : Trophée, constitué d'une cuirasse, de deux boucliers et de lances, au pied duquel se trouvent deux captifs opposés, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Germanica”, (La Victoire germanique).
Commentary
Poids léger. 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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