E-auction 66-31590 - bpv_309156 - PROBUS Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 55 € |
| Price : | 32 € |
| Maximum bid : | 33 € |
| End of the sale : | 21 July 2014 16:27:30 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 2
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,73 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
BMC.2417 - Curtis1881 - Milne4531 - MRKA.1202 - D.5533 - MRMA.112 /8 - Cop.914 - D.5333 - MRMA.112 /8
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Probus à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse legend : A K M AUR PR-OBOS SEB. (Autokrator Kaisar MarkoV AurhlioV ProboV SebastoV).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L / B.
Reverse description : Elpis/Spes (l’Espérance) drapée marchant à gauche, tenant une fleure de la main droite et relevant sa robe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : (An 2).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 3. Petit pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule. Épaulière décorée.
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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