MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 100.00 €
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 100.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278-279
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 4,51 g.
Officine: 4e
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et complet des deux côtés. Revers de toute beauté. Exemplaire ayant conservé tout son brillant d’origine et son coupant de frappe. Minuscules oxydations rougeâtres
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 heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIR-TV-S AVG/ -|-// IIII.
Reverse description : Mars, casqué, vêtu militairement, debout à gauche, tenant une Victoriola de la main droite et une haste et un bouclier de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti”, (La Virilité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Avec toute son argenture. Poids lourd. Le Docteur Bastien avait répertorié vingt-quatre exemplaires en 1976. Nous n’avons relevé aucune identité de coin pertinente.
With all its silver plating. Heavyweight. Doctor Bastien had listed twenty-four examples in 1976. We have not noted any relevant die identities.
With all its silver plating. Heavyweight. Doctor Bastien had listed twenty-four examples in 1976. 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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