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| Estimate : | 500 € |
| Price : | 260 € |
| Maximum bid : | 260 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 February 2024 15:08:11 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 280
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,08 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire sur un flan épais, idéalement centré. Buste de toute beauté, finement détaillé. Avec une grande partie de son argenture. Patine grise
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection J. S
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS AVG CONS III.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Probus radié à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Probus Augustus Consul tertium", (L’empereur César Probus auguste Consul pour la troisième fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS PVBLIC/ -|-// (GAMMA)XXI.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) drapée, debout à droite, tenant une patère de la main droite et nourrissant un serpent qu'elle tient de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Salus Publica”, (La Santé publique).
Commentary
Type rarissime avec la marque du consulat au droit, dans un état hors du commun.
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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