v27_0040 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 580.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 580.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,44 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Portrait inhabituel de toute beauté. Bien centré des deux côtés. Frappe molle au revers avec une usure superficielle. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques. Petites concrétions vertes dans le champ du revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIRTVS PROBI A-VG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant avec le sceptre sur l’épaule droite et tenant le bouclier de la main gauche orné d’une tête de Méduse (F).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TEMPO-R FELICI/ -|-// I.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée, debout à droite, tenant un caducée long de la main droite et une corne d'abondance relevée de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Temporum Felicitas”, (La Félicité du temps).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Poids lourd. Le Docteur Bastien n’avait relevé que six exemplaires dans son corpus en 1976. Le bouclier est orné d’une tête de Gorgone. Le P de Probus est bouché. Nous n’avons relevé aucune liaison de coin pertinente. C’est le septième exemplaire recensé. Prendra le numéro 211f dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With its superficial silver plating. Heavyweight. Doctor Bastien had only noted six examples in his corpus in 1976. The shield is decorated with a Gorgon's head. The P of Probus is blocked. We have not noted any relevant die bond. This is the seventh example recorded. Will take the number 211f in Bastien's Supplement III
With its superficial silver plating. Heavyweight. Doctor Bastien had only noted six examples in his corpus in 1976. The shield is decorated with a Gorgon's head. The P of Probus is blocked. We have not noted any relevant die bond. This is the seventh example recorded. Will take the number 211f in Bastien's Supplement III
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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