E-auction 38-14480 - brm_164864 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 155 € |
| Price : | 84 € |
| Maximum bid : | 88 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 January 2014 15:57:00 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 281
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,45 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait inhabituel pour ce type. Revers de haut relief. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques. Exemplaire ayant conservé son brillant de frappe et une partie de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : PRO-B-V-S P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Probus à gauche avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant un sceptre de la main droite posé sur l’épaule et un bouclier de la gauche (E1).
Obverse translation : “Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTO-RIA AVG// R (FOUDRE) .
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) drapée, marchant à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et portant un trophée sur l'épaule gauche.
Reverse legend : V
Reverse translation : "Victoria Augusti", (La Victoire de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Casque décoré avec le couvre nuque orné d’un fleuron pointé. Cuirasse lisse ornée de l’égide centrée d’une minuscule méduse. Bouclier clouté.
Lightweight. Fully silvered. Decorated helmet with a pointed fleuron on the neck. Smooth breastplate decorated with an aegis centered on a tiny medusa. Studded shield.
Lightweight. Fully silvered. Decorated helmet with a pointed fleuron on the neck. Smooth breastplate decorated with an aegis centered on a tiny medusa. Studded shield.
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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