brm_249544 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 75.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,23 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait de Probus. Joli revers bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine gris foncé avec des reflets métalliques dorés. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS 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 Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (L'empereur césar Probus pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONC-ORD - MILIT/ -|-// AXXI.
Reverse description : Concordia (la Concorde) drapée debout tournée à gauche, tenant dans chaque main une enseigne.
Reverse translation : "Concordia Militum", (La Concorde des soldats).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines et tombantes.
Heavyweight. With all its surface silver plating. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Thin, drooping pteryges
Heavyweight. With all its surface silver plating. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Thin, drooping 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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