brm_380219 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: début 277 - début 278
Date: 279
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,42 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire idéalement centré sur un flan très large. Joli portrait de style fin. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IM C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste consulaire de Probus radié à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SO-LI IN-VI-CT-O// RE.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié debout de face, la tête de face dans un quadrige écartelé, levant la main droite et tenant un globe et un fouet de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil Invincible).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 1. Manteau consulaire richement ornementé décoré avec une couronne sur le plastron. Ce type semble infiniment plus rare que ne le laisse supposer les ouvrages généraux.
With all of its surface silvering. Type 1 ribbons. Richly ornamented consular mantle decorated with a crown on the breastplate. This type seems infinitely rarer than general works suggest.
With all of its surface silvering. Type 1 ribbons. Richly ornamented consular mantle decorated with a crown on the breastplate. This type seems infinitely rarer than general works suggest.
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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