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Price : 80.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 281
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,57 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Probus. Joli revers avec une petite faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROB-VS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTOR-IA GERM -|-// R(FOUDRE)A.
Reverse description : Trophée, constitué d'une cuirasse, de deux boucliers et de lances, au pied duquel se trouvent deux captifs opposés, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : "Victoria Germanica", (La Victoire germanique).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. L’égide est posée sur la cuirasse lisse et est ornée d’une minuscule tête de Méduse. Épaulière cloutée et ptéryges larges.
With all its silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. The aegis is placed on the smooth breastplate and is decorated with a tiny head of Medusa. Studded shoulder guard and wide pteryges
With all its silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. The aegis is placed on the smooth breastplate and is decorated with a tiny head of Medusa. Studded shoulder guard and wide pteryges
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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