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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 85.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: janvier - avril
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,49 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et épais, parfaitement centré au droit, légèrement décentré au revers. Portrait de toute beauté faisant encore penser à ceux de Florien. Petite faiblesse de frappe au revers. Magnifique patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés, légèrement piquetée au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : M-ARS VICT-OR/ -|-// III.
Reverse description : Mars, nu casqué, le manteau flottant marchant à droite tenant de la main droite une haste transversale et de la gauche un trophée reposant sur son épaule.
Reverse translation : “Mars Victor”, (Mars victorieux).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Cuirasse lisse. Épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges larges. Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente. Le portrait fait encore penser à celui de son prédécesseur en ce début de troisième émission.
Heavyweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Smooth cuirass. Studded shoulder guard. Large pteryges. We have not noted any relevant die identity. The portrait is still reminiscent of that of its predecessor at the beginning of this third issue.
Heavyweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Smooth cuirass. Studded shoulder guard. Large pteryges. We have not noted any relevant die identity. The portrait is still reminiscent of that of its predecessor at the beginning of this third issue.
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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