v32_0489 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 100.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 100.00 €
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 100.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 100.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 279
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,49 g.
Officine: 1re
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et régulier avec un très beau portrait. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROB-VS 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 Probus Augustus", (L’empereur Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTOR-IA GERM -|-// R(CROISSANT)A.
Reverse description : Trophée, constitué d'une cuirasse, de deux boucliers et de lances, au pied duquel se trouvent deux captifs opposés, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : "Victoria Germanica", (La Victoire germanique).
Commentary
Poids léger. Sans argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. L’égide est posée sur la cuirasse lisse et est ornée d’une minuscule tête de Méduse. Épaulière cloutée et ptéryges larges. C’est la première fois que nous proposons un aurelianus de la quatrième officine avec ce revers.
Lightweight. Unsilvered. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. The aegis rests on the smooth cuirass and is decorated with a tiny head of Medusa. Studded shoulder guard and wide pteryges. This is the first time we have offered an aurelianus from the fourth officina with this reverse.
Lightweight. Unsilvered. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. The aegis rests on the smooth cuirass and is decorated with a tiny head of Medusa. Studded shoulder guard and wide pteryges. This is the first time we have offered an aurelianus from the fourth officina with this reverse.
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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