brm_249540 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 80.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 80.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 282
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,50 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,99 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Tout petit buste, bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers de haut relief. Patine gris foncé avec des reflets métalliques. Ayant conservé une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : PROBV-S 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 : "Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CON-S - PROB AVG/ -|-// REB.
Reverse description : Jupiter, nu le manteau sur l’épaule debout à gauche, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Iovi Conservatori Probi Augusti", (A Jupiter le protecteur de l'empereur Probus).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Cuirasse lisse recouverte de l’égide centrée d’une minuscule tête de Méduse. Épaulière onrée d’une palme. Ptéryges larges. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémité bouletées.
With its superficial silver plating. Smooth cuirass covered with the aegis centered on a tiny Medusa head. Shoulder guard adorned with a palm. Wide pteryges. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends
With its superficial silver plating. Smooth cuirass covered with the aegis centered on a tiny Medusa head. Shoulder guard adorned with a palm. Wide pteryges. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends
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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