brm_644629 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Price : 350.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,55 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan épais et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Buste de Probus inhabituel de toute beauté. Revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, avec l’égide posé sur la cuirasse lisse et pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule, tenant une haste posée sur l'épaule droite (F5).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS AVG/ -|-// XXIII.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) assise à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et nourrissant un serpent s'élevant d'un autel, le bras gauche reposant sur son siège.
Reverse translation : “Salus Augusti”, (La Santé de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 2 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse cloutée. Épaulière ornée de laurier. Petit pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule gauche. Ptéryges larges. Sceptre sur l’épaule.
Very heavy weight. With all its surface silver plating. Type 2 ribbons with pelleted ends. Studded breastplate. Shoulder guard decorated with laurel. Small patch of paludamentum on the left shoulder. Large pteryges. Scepter on the shoulder
Very heavy weight. With all its surface silver plating. Type 2 ribbons with pelleted ends. Studded breastplate. Shoulder guard decorated with laurel. Small patch of paludamentum on the left shoulder. Large pteryges. Scepter on the 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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