v41_1025 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,73 g.
Officine: 7e
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait magnifique. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets métalliques. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PRO-BVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite avec l’égide posée sur la cuirasse nue et l’égide sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B05).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ADVEN-TVS AVG// R*Z.
Reverse description : L'empereur à cheval, galopant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un sceptre de la gauche ; devant lui, un captif assis, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Adventus Augusti”, (L'arrivée de l'auguste).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges larges. Épaulière lisse. La cuirasse lisse est recouverte de l’égide ornée en son centre d’une minuscule tête de Méduse. Égide sur l’épaule gauche. C’est le buste normal pour l’atelier de Rome.
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Wide pteryges. Smooth shoulder guard. The smooth cuirass is covered with the aegis decorated in its center with a tiny head of Medusa. Aegis on the left shoulder. This is the normal bust for the Rome workshop
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Wide pteryges. Smooth shoulder guard. The smooth cuirass is covered with the aegis decorated in its center with a tiny head of Medusa. Aegis on the left shoulder. This is the normal bust for the Rome workshop
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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