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brm_463098 - PROBUS Aurelianus

PROBUS Aurelianus AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 500.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,44 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, paraitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Probus. Revers tout à fait inhabituel et exceptionnel. Patine marron, légèrement tachée
Catalogue references :
ROME 5/-  - C.206 (20f.) - RIC.537  - REPHN.163

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite drapé sur l’épaule gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus".

Reverse

Reverse legend : CONSERVAT AVG/ -|-// BXXI.
Reverse description : Temple hexastyle à fronton triangulaire orné posé sur trois marches ; au centre, une statue de Sol debout à gauche.
Reverse translation : "Conservatori Augusti" (Au Protecteur de l'auguste).

Commentary

Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Épaulière laurée. Ptéryges larges. Petit pan de paludamentum. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux ! C’est la première fois que nous le proposons à la vente.

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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