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Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 280
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,22 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire avec un portrait de toute beauté, servi par une argenture d’une rare qualité. Joli revers. Patine grise
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant d’une collection du XIXe siècle qui n’est jamais réapparue sur le marché depuis ! Avec sa pochette d’origine
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SPE-S AVG/ -|VI// XXI.
Reverse description : Spes (l'Espérance) marchant à gauche, tenant une fleur de la main droite et relevant un pan de sa robe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Spes Augusti”, (L'Espérance de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Magnifique argenture ! Indiqué comme commun dans le nouvel ouvrage de Stéphane Hiland et Christophe Oliva (n°609), ce type semble pourtant beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent imaginer les ouvrages généraux avec la titulature courte au droit ! Type que nous présentons pour la première fois à la vente.
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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