v55_0262 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 55 (2012)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 415.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 678.00 €
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 415.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 678.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Thrace, Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,93 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle avec un portrait magnifique et un revers de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets marron glacé. Monnaie ayant conservé son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XXVIII, n° 359
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste de Probus casqué et radié à gauche, avec cuirasse, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste posée sur l'épaule et un bouclier (E1).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS PROBI AVG/ -|-// KA.
Reverse description : Probus galopant à droite, tue, avec sa haste, un ennemi dont le bouclier est tombé sous le cheval de l'empereur.
Reverse legend : .D.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Casque pointé, le couvre nuque orné de quatre points. Cuirasse et bouclier lisses avec le baudrier transversal visible. Haste et non pas sceptre comme sur certains exemplaires. Cet exemplaire s’est vendu 356€ avec trois offres sur un maximum à 392€.
With all its silver plating. Pointed helmet, the neck guard decorated with four points. Smooth breastplate and shield with the transverse baldric visible. Haste and not scepter as on some examples. This example sold for €356 with three bids out of a maximum of €392
With all its silver plating. Pointed helmet, the neck guard decorated with four points. Smooth breastplate and shield with the transverse baldric visible. Haste and not scepter as on some examples. This example sold for €356 with three bids out of a maximum of €392
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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