brm_217420 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278-279
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,48 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et complet, bien centré des deux côtés. Exemplaire ayant conservé son brillant et son coupant d’origine, servi par une patine avec des reflets mordorés. Revers de haut relief et de style fin
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXVII, n° 58 (collection Daniel Compas)
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 : FIDES MI-LITVM/ -|-// III.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant dans chaque main une enseigne militaire.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Avec toute son argenture. Poids lourd. Début de cassure de coin perceptible dans la couronne radiée. Le Docteur Bastien avait répertorié quinze exemplaires en 1976. Nous n’avons relevé aucune identité de coin pertinente.
With all its silver plating. Heavy weight. Beginning of die breakage visible in the radiate crown. Doctor Bastien had listed fifteen examples in 1976. We have not noted any relevant die identities.
With all its silver plating. Heavy weight. Beginning of die breakage visible in the radiate crown. Doctor Bastien had listed fifteen examples in 1976. We have not noted any relevant die identities.
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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