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v27_0055 - PROBUS Aurelianus

PROBUS Aurelianus AU
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 400.00 €
Estimate : 600.00 €
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,66 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, complet des deux côtés et bien centré. Très beau portrait de haut relief. Revers de style fin. Infimes petites oxydations rougeâtres de surface. Monnaie ayant conservé son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : VIRTVS PR-OBI - AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant un sceptre de la main droite placé sur l'épaule et un bouclier orné d’un cavalier (E).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VIR-T-V-S AVG/ -|-// IIII.
Reverse description : Mars, casqué, vêtu militairement, debout à gauche, tenant une Victoriola de la main droite et un sceptre long et un bouclier de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti”, (La Virilité de l’auguste).

Commentary


Avec toute son argenture. Le Docteur Bastien avait répertorié sept exemplaires en 1976 dont trois avec cette césure particulière VIRTVS PRO-BI - AVG. Le bouclier orné et clouté est décoré d’une scène représentant Probus galopant à droite terrassant un ennemi couché sous son cheval. Le casque est orné de nombreux globules sur la visière et la partie supérieure du casque. Le couvre nuque est timbré de cinq globules posés en carré et centrés. Même coin de droit que les exemplaires du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF provenant de la collection H. G. Pflaum, Bastien n° 259e, pl. XXXI et de l’Ashmolean Museum d’Oxford, Bastien n° 259d, pl. XXI. C’est le quatrième exemplaire publié avec ce type de césure bien particulière pour cette variété. Prendra le numéro 259g dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With all its silver plating. Doctor Bastien had listed seven examples in 1976, three of which had this particular caesura VIRTVS PRO-BI - AVG. The ornate and studded shield is decorated with a scene depicting Probus galloping to the right, overcoming an enemy lying under his horse. The helmet is decorated with numerous globules on the visor and the upper part of the helmet. The neck cover is stamped with five globules placed in a square and centered. Same obverse die as the examples in the Cabinet des médailles of the BnF from the HG Pflaum collection, Bastien no. 259e, pl. XXXI and from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Bastien no. 259d, pl. XXI. This is the fourth example published with this type of caesura, very particular for this variety. Will take the number 259g in Supplement III of Bastien

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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