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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278-279
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,69 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Buste de toute beauté de Probus. Revers de haut relief. Jolie patine avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
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 : ABVNDANTIA AVG/ -|-// IIII.
Reverse description : Abundantia (L'Abondance) debout à droite, tenant des deux mains une corne d'abondance qu'elle déverse.
Reverse translation : “Abundantia Augusti”, (L’Abondance de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse lisse. Ptéryges fines. Légende de droit ponctuée. Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente.
Heavyweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Smooth cuirass. Thin pteryges. Punctuated obverse legend. We have not noted any relevant die identity.
Heavyweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Smooth cuirass. Thin pteryges. Punctuated obverse legend. We have not noted any relevant die identity.
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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