v59_0544 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 280.00 €
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 280.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: janvier -février
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,50 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 5e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Probus, bien venu à la frappe, de haut relief. Joli revers, finement détaillé. Merveilleuse patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve l’intégrale de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Helios 5 (Munich), n° 414 et de la collection Daniel Compas “antoniniani et aureliani exceptionnels”
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M TR P C-OS P P/ -|-// XXIE.
Reverse description : L'empereur lauré, en habit militaire, debout à gauche, entre deux enseignes militaires, la main droite levée et tenant un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Consul Pater Patriæ”, (Grand pontife revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne consul père de la patrie).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Sylviane Estiot a recensé seulement six exemplaires de ce type.
Lightweight. With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Pteryges invisible under the paludamentum. Sylviane Estiot has recorded only six specimens of this type.
Lightweight. With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Pteryges invisible under the paludamentum. Sylviane Estiot has recorded only six specimens of this type.
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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