MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 279
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,23 g.
Officine: 5e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type sur un flan large et complet des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait de toute beauté. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Magnifique patine gris métallique avec des reflets 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 consulaire de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMAE - AETER// R (CROISSANT)E.
Reverse description : Rome assise dans un temple hexastyle (six colonnes) à fronton triangulaire posé sur trois marches, tenant une victoriola et un sceptre.
Reverse translation : “Romæ Æternæ”, (À la Rome éternelle).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Manteau consulaire richement décoré avec la toga picta et la toga palmata orné d’un motif décoratif et d’une couronne sur la poitrine.
Heavyweight. With all its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Richly decorated consular mantle with the toga picta and the toga palmata adorned with a decorative motif and a crown on the chest.
Heavyweight. With all its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Richly decorated consular mantle with the toga picta and the toga palmata adorned with a decorative motif and a crown on the chest.
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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