MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278-279
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,67 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Portrait fantastique. Revers magnifique. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
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 : ABVNDA-NTIA AVG/ -|-// IIII.
Reverse description : Abundantia (L'Abondance) debout à droite, tenant des deux mains une corne d'abondance qu'elle déverse.
Reverse translation : “Abundantia Augusti”, (L’Abondance de l’auguste).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse lisse et épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges fines. Légende de droit ponctuée. Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente. 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. Smooth cuirass and studded shoulder guard. Thin pteryges. Punctuated obverse legend. We have not noted any relevant die identity. 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. Smooth cuirass and studded shoulder guard. Thin pteryges. Punctuated obverse legend. We have not noted any relevant die identity. 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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