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Price : 225.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 280
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,53 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Slab
NGC :
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait magnifique et inhabituel. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine gris foncé avec des reflets métalliques. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acquis en 2008 et provient de la collection Daniel Compas “antoniniani et aureliani exceptionnels”
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à gauche avec l’égide sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant la lance de la main droite reposant sur l’épaule (F5).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probu Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PA-X - A-VG/ -|P/ XXI.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une branche d’olivier dans la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augusti”, (La Paix de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges larges. Grande égide sur l’épaule. Sylviane Estiot signale que c’est le troisième exemplaire recensé. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du musée de Vienne.
Lightweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Wide pteryges. Large aegis on the shoulder. Sylviane Estiot reports that this is the third example recorded. Same dies as the example in the Vienna Museum
Lightweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Wide pteryges. Large aegis on the shoulder. Sylviane Estiot reports that this is the third example recorded. Same dies as the example in the Vienna Museum
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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