v27_0057 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 90.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
Realised price : 90.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 90.00 €
Starting price : 90.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
Realised price : 90.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 90.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278-279
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,47 g.
Officine: 1e
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire bien centré sur un flan complet des deux côtés, ayant conservé son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine. Infimes petites traces d’oxydation superficielle
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS. P. F. AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite, avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Probus pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TEMP-OR FELIC[I]/ -|-// I.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée, debout à droite, tenant un caducée long de la main droite et une corne d'abondance relevée de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Temporum Felicitas”, (La Félicité du temps).
Commentary
Avec toute son argenture. Poids léger. Le dernier I de FELICI semble absent. Cassure de coin dans la légende au niveau du premier I du même FELICI, dans le champ. Sur cet exemplaire, l’armure est lisse, sans écaille. Nous n’avons relevé aucune identité de coin pertinente.
With all its silvering. Light weight. The last I of FELICI seems to be missing. Die break in the legend at the level of the first I of the same FELICI, in the field. On this example, the armor is smooth, without scales. We have not noted any relevant die identities
With all its silvering. Light weight. The last I of FELICI seems to be missing. Die break in the legend at the level of the first I of the same FELICI, in the field. On this example, the armor is smooth, without scales. We have not noted any relevant die identities
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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