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Price : 250.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,64 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire sur un flan épais et bien centré. Superbe buste, aux détails bien visibles. Superbe revers de style fin. La monnaie a conservé une partie de son coupant d’origine. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS PROB-I AVG/ -|-// XXIS.
Reverse description : Probus vêtu militairement, galopant à gauche, terrassant avec sa haste un ennemi tombé à terre et allongé à gauche sous le cheval.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Robe consulaire avec la toga picta et la toga palmata richement décorée avec une couronne sur la poitrine et plusieurs palmettes.
Heavyweight. With all its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Consular dress with the toga picta and the toga palmata richly decorated with a crown on the chest and several palmettes
Heavyweight. With all its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Consular dress with the toga picta and the toga palmata richly decorated with a crown on the chest and several palmettes
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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