v45_0577 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 190.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 220.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 220.00 €
Starting price : 190.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 220.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 220.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: juillet - août
Date: 281
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,46 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 4e
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait de Probus. Joli revers inhabituel avec Hercule. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets marron glacé. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection P. L.
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COMITI - PR-OBI AVG/ -|-// IIII.
Reverse description : Hercule nu, debout à gauche, tenant un rameau d’olivier de la main droite et sa massue reposant sur son bras gauche et tenant la léonté.
Reverse translation : “Comiti Probi Augusti”, (À notre compagnon, Probus auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges larges. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente. C’est le cinquième exemplaire recensé. Malgré la rareté du type, nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente. Prendra le numéro 334c dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
Lightweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with balled ends. Studded cuirass and shoulder guard. Wide pteryges. This is the first time we have offered this type for sale. It is the fifth example recorded. Despite the rarity of the type, we have not noted any relevant die identity. Will take the number 334c in Supplement III of Bastien
Lightweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with balled ends. Studded cuirass and shoulder guard. Wide pteryges. This is the first time we have offered this type for sale. It is the fifth example recorded. Despite the rarity of the type, we have not noted any relevant die identity. Will take the number 334c 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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