v41_1005 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
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Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Date: 277-278
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,99 g.
Officine: 1re
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type , bien centré sur un petit flan. Merveilleux portrait. Revers de style fin et de haut relief. Patine avec des reflets dorés. A conservé son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS. P. F. AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite, avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur César Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TEMPO-R FELICI/ -|-// I.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) debout à droite, tenant de la main droite un caducée long et de la gauche une corne d'abondance relevée.
Reverse translation : “Temporum Felicitas”, (La Félicité du temps).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse cloutée et épaulière lisse. Ptéryges fines. Légende de droit ponctuée. Le buste (B01) “classique” est peut-être le plus courant du monnayage en général.
With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Studded cuirass and smooth shoulder guard. Thin pteryges. Punctuated obverse legend. The “classic” bust (B01) is perhaps the most common in the coinage in general
With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Studded cuirass and smooth shoulder guard. Thin pteryges. Punctuated obverse legend. The “classic” bust (B01) is perhaps the most common in the coinage in general
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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