brm_627692 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 279
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,73 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan ovale bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Buste de Probus de toute beauté. Revers fantastique de haut relief et de style fin. Jolie patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PRO-BVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite, avec l’égide posée sur la cuirasse nue, l’égide sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B05) ; buste héroïque.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ADVEN-TVS AVG// R(CROISSANT)S.
Reverse description : L'empereur à cheval, galopant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un sceptre de la gauche ; devant lui, un captif assis, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Adventus Augusti”, (L'arrivée de l'auguste).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Égide avec la tête de Méduse posée sur la cuirasse. Épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges fines et tombantes.
With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Aegis with the head of Medusa placed on the breastplate. Studded shoulder guard. Thin, drooping pteryges
With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Aegis with the head of Medusa placed on the breastplate. Studded shoulder guard. Thin, drooping pteryges
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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