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brm_644564 - PROBUS Aurelianus

PROBUS Aurelianus AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 250.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277-278
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,77 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince, bien des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau buste militaire de Probus. Revers de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
C.-  - RIC.430  - REPHN.687 (R2)

Obverse

Obverse legend : VIRTVS PROBI A-VG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et casqué de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant un bouclier de la main gauche et une haste de la main droite pointant en arrière (E1).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, “La Virilité de Probus auguste”.

Reverse

Reverse legend : VIRT-V-S - AVG/ -|-// PXXT.
Reverse description : Mars casqué et nu marchant à gauche, le manteau flottant sur l’épaule, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite et un trophée de la main gauche reposant sur l’épaule.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti”, (La Virilité de l'auguste).

Commentary

Poids très léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Casque décoré et festonné orné d’une étoile sur le couvre nuque. Petite égide posée sur la cuirasse. Bouclier lisse avec umbo central.

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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