v28_0339 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 28 (2007)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,32 g.
Officine: 3e
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage. Portrait de style fin avec une minuscule usure sur la couronne. Revers de toute beauté. Patine marron glacé
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PR-OBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste de Probus radié à droite, avec cuirasse, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Probus Augustus", (L’empereur Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMAE - AETER/ -|-// R (COURONNE).
Reverse description : Rome assise dans un temple à hexastyle à fronton triangulaire vide tenant une victoriola de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : G
Reverse translation : "Romæ Æternæ" (À la Rome éternelle).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec toute son argenture. L’égide recouvre la cuirasse lisse. Ptéryges larges.
Lightweight. With all its silver plating. The aegis covers the smooth cuirass. Wide pteryges
Lightweight. With all its silver plating. The aegis covers the smooth cuirass. Wide pteryges
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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