brm_291349 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 550.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 550.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Date: 277-278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,27 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait magnifique et inhabituel. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP - C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste de la main droite placé sur l'épaule (F9).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ABVNDANTIA AVG/ -|-// IIII.
Reverse description : Abundantia (l’Abondance) drapée debout à droite, tenant une corne d’abondance des deux mains et la renversant.
Reverse translation : “Abundantia Augusti”, (L’Abondance de l’auguste).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de argenture superficielle. Poids léger. Le Docteur Bastien avait répertorié six exemplaires en 1976. Nous n’avons pas relevé d’identité de coin pertinente. Ce type de buste est très rare. C’est le sixième exemplaire recensé. Prendra le numéro 249 e dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With full surface silvering. Lightweight. Doctor Bastien listed six examples in 1976. We have not found any relevant die identity. This type of bust is very rare. This is the sixth example listed. Will take number 249 in Bastien's Supplement III.
With full surface silvering. Lightweight. Doctor Bastien listed six examples in 1976. We have not found any relevant die identity. This type of bust is very rare. This is the sixth example listed. Will take number 249 in Bastien's Supplement III.
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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