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brm_188084 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 155.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 155.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 25,00 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,34 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large, ovale et irrégulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PRO-BVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite avec l’égide sur l’épaule gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (B02).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTOR-IA GERM// R*Z.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) drapée marchant à droite, tenant un trophée de la main gauche et une couronne de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Germanica”, (La Victoire germanique).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse lisse avec l’égide sur la poitrine. Épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges larges surmontés d’une rangée de rivets. Semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages de référence. Nous sommes en présence d’un revers exceptionnel pour la troisième émission.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Smooth cuirass with the aegis on the chest. Studded shoulder guard. Broad pteryges surmounted by a row of rivets. Appears much rarer than reference works suggest. This is an exceptional reverse for the third issue.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Smooth cuirass with the aegis on the chest. Studded shoulder guard. Broad pteryges surmounted by a row of rivets. Appears much rarer than reference works suggest. This is an exceptional reverse for the 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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