v41_1022 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
Realised price : 175.00 €
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 280.00 €
Realised price : 175.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 279
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,55 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 7e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan mince et large, bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait magnifique. Revers fantastique. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques marron glacé. 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)Z.
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. Ptéryges larges. Épaulière ornée d’une palme. La cuirasse est recouverte de l’égide et d’une minuscule tête de Méduse. Portrait très particulier, avec la cuirasse lisse, vu à mi corps, héroïque. L’égide est posée sur la cuirasse lisse (lorica, chalcochiton) ou cuirasse ornée des empereurs ou des généraux.
With all of its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Wide pteryges. Shoulder guard decorated with a palm. The cuirass is covered with the aegis and a tiny head of Medusa. Very unusual portrait, with the smooth cuirass, seen from the mid-body, heroic. The aegis is placed on the smooth cuirass (lorica, chalcochiton) or decorated cuirass of emperors or generals
With all of its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Wide pteryges. Shoulder guard decorated with a palm. The cuirass is covered with the aegis and a tiny head of Medusa. Very unusual portrait, with the smooth cuirass, seen from the mid-body, heroic. The aegis is placed on the smooth cuirass (lorica, chalcochiton) or decorated cuirass of emperors or generals
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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