v41_1057 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 149.00 €
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 149.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 279
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,05 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large, ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Portrait fantastique. Revers de toute beauté. Magnifique patine gris foncé avec des reflets métalliques mordorés
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 : SO-L-I INVIC-TO// R(CROISSANT)B.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié, montant dans un quadrige au galop à gauche, tenant un globe de la main gauche et un fouet de la droite.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil Invincible).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 2 aux extrémités bouletées. Manteau consulaire richement décoré avec la toga picta et la toga palmata orné d’une palme et d’une couronne sur la poitrine.
With all its surface silver plating. Type 2 ribbons with rounded ends. Richly decorated consular mantle with the toga picta and the toga palmata adorned with a palm and a crown on the chest.
With all its surface silver plating. Type 2 ribbons with rounded ends. Richly decorated consular mantle with the toga picta and the toga palmata adorned with a palm 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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