v21_3330 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 275.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 300.00 €
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 275.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 300.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 09-12/281
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon (Lugdunum)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,72 g.
Officine: 4e
Emission: 9e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques. Avec son argenture. Petit défaut de patine avec une rayure
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS. P. F. AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX- AVG/ D|-.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une branche d’olivier de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augusti”, (La Paix de l’auguste).
Commentary
Variante avec lettre d’officine renversée (D). C’est le second exemplaire signalé. Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire du musée de Vienne (B 429).
Variant with reversed officinal letter (D). This is the second reported example. Same reverse die as the example in the Vienna Museum (B 429)
Variant with reversed officinal letter (D). This is the second reported example. Same reverse die as the example in the Vienna Museum (B 429)
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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