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brm_348781 - PROBUS Aurelianus

PROBUS Aurelianus AU
120.00 €(Approx. 129.60$ | 105.60£)
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: 279
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,93 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Beau portrait consulaire de Probus. Joli revers de haut relief. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection du Professeur M. Caselli

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP PRO-BVS 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 Augustus", (L’empereur Probus auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : ROMAE - AETER// R (CROISSANT) B.
Reverse description : Rome assise dans un temple à six colonnes, tenant une victoriola et un sceptre.
Reverse translation : "Romæ Æternæ", (À Rome Eternelle).

Commentary


Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 2 aux extrémités bouletées. Robe consulaire richement décorée avec la toga picta et la toga palmata.

Historical background


Probus

(06-07/276-09/282)

Probus was born August 19 232 Sirmium. He leads a distinguished military career in the reigns between Valerian I and Tacitus. He was commander of the Eastern Army in the death of Tacitus, immediately proclaimed emperor and triumphs easily Florien is murdered. This is serious. The Rhine-Danube limes yielded under the pressure of the Germanic invasions. Probus restore peace in Gaul, Germania and Raetia in which he inflicted a severe defeat on the Germanic peoples in Thrace where he crushed the Sarmatians and Scythians in Asia Minor that cleans looters and pirates Pamphylians finally in Africa where he puts an end to raids Blemmyes. In 280, he signed peace with Vahram II Sassanid monarch. He must face the theft of Saturninus, Proculus and Bonosus. Probus, having triumphed over all his enemies, 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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