brm_297805 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 75.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 281
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,98 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait consulaire de Probus. Superbe revers. Patine gris foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROB-VS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Empereur Probus Pieux Heureux Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INVICT-O// R (FOUDRE) .
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié montant dans un quadrige au galop à gauche, tenant un globe de la main gauche et un fouet de la droite.
Reverse legend : G
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil Invincible).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Buste consulaire richement décoré avec la toga picta et la toga palmata, ornée d’une couronne.
Lightweight. With its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Richly decorated consular bust with the toga picta and the toga palmata, adorned with a crown.
Lightweight. With its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Richly decorated consular bust with the toga picta and the toga palmata, adorned with a crown.
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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