brm_173074 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: mi - fin
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,02 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type monétaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait vigoureux. Revers de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques mordorés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS. P. F. AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LAETITIA AVGVSTI/ -|-// IIII.
Reverse description : Laetitia (la Joie) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant de la main droite une couronne et de la main gauche une ancre sous la forme d'un bâton stylisé.
Reverse translation : “Lætitia Augusti”, (La Joie de l'auguste).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse et épaulière lisses. Ptéryges fines et tombantes. Légende ponctuée au droit. Nous n’avons pas noté de liaison de coin pertinente.
With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Smooth cuirass and shoulder guard. Thin, drooping pteryges. Punctuated legend on the obverse. We have not noted any relevant die bond
With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Smooth cuirass and shoulder guard. Thin, drooping pteryges. Punctuated legend on the obverse. We have not noted any relevant die bond
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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