v31_0533 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 200.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 400.00 €
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 200.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 400.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Thrace, Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,66 g.
Officine: 3e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de buste. Flan large et bien centré des deux côtés. Revers de très joli style. Patine marron glacé avec des reflets métalliques. A conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste de la main droite posée sur l'épaule et un bouclier de la main gauche (E1).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S-O-LI INVIC-T-O// KA..
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié debout de face dans un quadrige écartelé, le manteau flottant au vent, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : D.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil invincible).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Casque lisse avec un couvre nuque orné d’une croisette bouletée. Cuirasse lisse. Bouclier lisse avec umbo central et baudrier transversal. Sur notre exemplaire, la haste ressemble à un sceptre. Au revers, Sol tourne la tête à gauche.
With all its silver plating. Smooth helmet with a neck cover decorated with a ball-shaped cross. Smooth cuirass. Smooth shield with central umbo and transverse baldric. On our example, the spear resembles a scepter. On the reverse, Sol turns his head to the left
With all its silver plating. Smooth helmet with a neck cover decorated with a ball-shaped cross. Smooth cuirass. Smooth shield with central umbo and transverse baldric. On our example, the spear resembles a scepter. On the reverse, Sol turns his head to the left
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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