brm_173165 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Price : 250.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Date: 277-278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,80 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince et large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Manque de relief sur le bouclier au droit. Joli revers de haut relief et de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques mordorés, légèrement tachée au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIRTVS PRO-BI - AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Probus à gauche avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste posée sur l'épaule et un bouclier (E1).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TEMPO-R FELICI/ -|-// I.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée, debout à droite, tenant un caducée long de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Temporum Felicitas”, (La Félicité des temps).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Casque clouté et décoré. Couvre nuque orné de cinq globules. Cuirasse lisse. Balteus. Bouclier clouté et décoré. Faiblesse de frappe au droit sur le bouclier. Cassure de coin perceptible au revers au niveau du premier I de FELICI. C’est le deuxième signalé avec cette césure au droit. Prendra le numéro 209h dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
Very light weight. With all its surface silver plating. Studded and decorated helmet. Neck cover decorated with five globules. Smooth cuirass. Balteus. Studded and decorated shield. Weak strike on the obverse of the shield. Die break visible on the reverse at the level of the first I of FELICI. This is the second reported with this caesura on the obverse. Will take the number 209h in Supplement III of Bastien
Very light weight. With all its surface silver plating. Studded and decorated helmet. Neck cover decorated with five globules. Smooth cuirass. Balteus. Studded and decorated shield. Weak strike on the obverse of the shield. Die break visible on the reverse at the level of the first I of FELICI. This is the second reported with this caesura on the obverse. Will take the number 209h in Supplement III of Bastien
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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