brm_604721 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: début
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,24 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré; Beau buste de Probus. Frappe faible au revers. Jolie patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS 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 Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDE-S MILITVM/ -|-// III.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant dans chaque main une enseigne militaire.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse lisse. Épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges fines. Le Docteur Bastien n’avait relevé que cinq exemplaires dans son corpus en 1976. Orientation des coins inhabituelle. Nous n’avons relevé aucune liaison de coin pertinente. C’est le huitième exemplaire recensé. Prendra le numéro 180f dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Smooth breastplate. Studded shoulder pad. Fine pteryga. Doctor Bastien noted only five examples in his corpus in 1976. Unusual orientation of the corners. We did not find any relevant corner connections. This is the eighth example recorded. Will take number 180f in Supplement III of Bastien
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Smooth breastplate. Studded shoulder pad. Fine pteryga. Doctor Bastien noted only five examples in his corpus in 1976. Unusual orientation of the corners. We did not find any relevant corner connections. This is the eighth example recorded. Will take number 180f 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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