v41_0991 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,18 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 7e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré. Beau portrait à l’usure régulière. Joli revers de style fin, de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Patine gris foncé avec des reflets mordorés au revers
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 : VIRTVS A-VGVSTI/ -|-// RZ.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) casquée, vêtue militairement debout à gauche, tenant un bouclier de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti”, (La Virilité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Avec 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. S. Estiot a recensé neuf exemplaires au total.
With its superficial silver plating. A very unusual portrait, with a smooth cuirass, seen from the mid-body, 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. S. Estiot has recorded nine examples in total.
With its superficial silver plating. A very unusual portrait, with a smooth cuirass, seen from the mid-body, 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. S. Estiot has recorded nine examples in total.
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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