brm_766618 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,95 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée présentant un très beau buste de Probus, finement détaillé. Avec son argenture
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Exemplaire provenant de la collection J. S
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste de la main droite placé sur l'épaule (F9).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES MI-LITVM/ -|-// III.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant dans chaque main une enseigne militaire.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Le Docteur Bastien avait répertorié un exemplaire en 1976 auquel sont venus s’ajouter deux nouveaux spécimens dans le Supplément II. La cuirasse de notre exemplaire est ornée d’une tête de Méduse.
Doctor Bastien had listed a specimen in 1976 to which two new specimens were added in Supplement II. The breastplate of our example is decorated with a head of Medusa.
Doctor Bastien had listed a specimen in 1976 to which two new specimens were added in Supplement II. The breastplate of our example is decorated with a head of Medusa.
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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