v45_0566 - PROBUS Aurelianus de poids lourd
MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus de poids lourd
Date: novembre - décembre
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,43 g.
Officine: 1re
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan très épais, centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait fantastique de haut relief. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine gris métallique avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve au droit l’intégralité 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 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 : ORIE-NS AVG/ -|-// I.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) nu, le manteau flottant sur l’épaule, marchant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, de chaque côté, un captif assis dos à dos, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Oriens Augusti”, (L'Orient de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids excessivement lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière lisses. Ptéryges larges. Nous n’avons relevé aucune liaison de coin pertinente. Avec un poids de 5,43 g , c’est l’un des exemplaires les plus lourds que nous ayons proposé à la vente sur plus de 400 aureliani de Lyon.
Excessively heavy weight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Smooth cuirass and shoulder guard. Wide pteryges. We have not noted any relevant die bonds. With a weight of 5.43 g, this is one of the heaviest examples we have offered for sale out of more than 400 aureliani from Lyon
Excessively heavy weight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Smooth cuirass and shoulder guard. Wide pteryges. We have not noted any relevant die bonds. With a weight of 5.43 g, this is one of the heaviest examples we have offered for sale out of more than 400 aureliani from Lyon
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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