brm_348769 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Price : 150.00 €
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 281
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,04 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Beau portrait de Probus. Revers de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli
Obverse
Obverse legend : PROBV-S P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Probus radié à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : "Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMAE - AETER// R(FOUDRE).
Reverse description : Rome assise dans un temple à six colonnes, tenant une victoriola et un sceptre.
Reverse legend : D
Reverse translation : "Romae Aeternae", (A Rome éternelle).
Commentary
Avecl’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Buste consulaire richement ornementé avec la toga picta et la toga palmata orné d’une couronne. Scipio surmontée d’une minuscule petite aigle.
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Richly ornamented consular bust with the toga picta and the toga palmata decorated with a crown. Scipio topped with a tiny little eagle
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Richly ornamented consular bust with the toga picta and the toga palmata decorated with a crown. Scipio topped with a tiny little eagle
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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