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brm_604693 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 95.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 95.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,49 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau buste de Probus. Joli revers de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S-O-LI INVICT-O/ -|-// KA.B..
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié debout de face, la tête à gauche dans un quadrige écartelé, levant la main droite et tenant un fouet et le globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil invaincu).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges larges. Égide sur l’épaule gauche.
Lightweight. With all its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Wide pteryges. Aegis on the left shoulder
Lightweight. With all its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Wide pteryges. Aegis on the left shoulder
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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PROBUS Aurelianus AU
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