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brm_221184 - PROBUS Aurelianus

PROBUS Aurelianus AU
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Price : 135.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,00 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 4,04 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Portrait inhabituel. Joli revers. Belle patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A) ; buste héroïque.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : ROMAE AE-TERNAE/ -|-// RZ.
Reverse description : Rome assise dans un temple à six colonnes (hexastyle), tenant une victoriola et un sceptre.
Reverse translation : “Romæ Æternæ”, (À Rome éternelle).

Commentary


Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Portrait très particulier, avec la cuirasse lisse, vu à mi corps, héroïque. Ptéryges larges et cloutées visibles sous le paludamentum. Ce dernier est posé sur la cuirasse lisse (lorica, chalcochiton) ou cuirasse ornée des empereurs ou des généraux. Dans le trésor de La Venèra, il y a seulement trois exemplaires avec ce type de buste et cette légende et S. Estiot a recensé cinq exemplaires au total. Sur cet exemplaire, on aperçoit mal le sein de la cuirasse. Jean Guillemain a recensé six exemplaires au total dont trois dans le trésor de la Venèra et un dans celui de Maravielle.
With all of its surface silvering. A very unusual portrait, with a smooth cuirass, seen from the mid-section, heroic. Large, studded pteryges are visible under the paludamentum. The latter is placed on the smooth cuirass (lorica, chalcochiton) or decorated cuirass of emperors or generals. In the La Venèra treasure, there are only three examples with this type of bust and this legend, and S. Estiot has identified five examples in total. On this example, the breast of the cuirass is barely visible. Jean Guillemain has identified six examples in total, including three in the La Venèra treasure and one in the Maravielle treasure.

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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