v29_0386 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 29 (2007)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 505.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 634.00 €
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 505.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 634.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,58 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire extraordinaire de toute beauté, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait exceptionnel. Revers fantastique servi par une merveilleuse patine marron glacé avec des reflets métalliques ayant conservé son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine. Infimes petites faiblesses de frappe sur les légendes
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste héroïque radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS AV-GV-STI/ -|-// R.
Reverse description : Probus lauré, vêtu militairement debout à gauche, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche et couronnant de la main droite un trophée, au pied duquel est assis un captif, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti”,(La Virilité de l'auguste).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Sur cet exemplaire au buste très particulier, nous apercevons, sur la cuirasse, la pointe du sein. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges longues, fines et tombantes.
With all its silver plating. On this example with a very particular bust, we can see, on the breastplate, the tip of the breast. Type 3 ribbons. Long, thin, and drooping pteryges
With all its silver plating. On this example with a very particular bust, we can see, on the breastplate, the tip of the breast. Type 3 ribbons. Long, thin, and 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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