brm_231155 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: janvier - août
Date: 282
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,71 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait de toute beauté. Revers de style fin, mais de frappe un peu molle. Magnifique patine gris métallique avec des reflets mordorés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS. P. F. AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Félix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COME-S AVG/ A|-// -.
Reverse description : Minerve casquée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant un rameau d'olivier de la main droite et une haste de la main gauche, appuyée sur son bouclier.
Reverse translation : “Comes Augusti”, (Le Compagnon de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Pierre Bastien avait relevé vingt-sept exemplaires en 1976.
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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