v59_0566 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 480.00 €
Estimate : 780.00 €
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Starting price : 480.00 €
Estimate : 780.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 281
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,63 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 5e
Emission: 9e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan exceptionnellement large et parfaitement centré avec les grènetis complets. Magnifique buste consulaire. Joli revers. Le tout mis en valeur par une extraordinaire patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés donnant l’impression d’avoir affaire à un aureus
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Lanz 151, n° 883 et de la collection Daniel Compas “antoniniani et aureliani exceptionnels”
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS AVG CONS IIII.
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 Probus Augustus Consul Quartum", (L’empereur césar Probus auguste consul pour la quatrième fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX - A-VGV-STI/ T|-// VXXI.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant une branche d'olivier dans la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augusti”, (La Paix de l’Auguste).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle sur un flan exceptionnel. Rubans de type 3 avec les extrémités bouletées. Magnifique buste consulaire avec la toga picta et la toga palmata décorées et festonnées.
With all of its surface silvering on an exceptional flan. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Magnificent consular bust with the decorated and festooned toga picta and toga palmata
With all of its surface silvering on an exceptional flan. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Magnificent consular bust with the decorated and festooned toga picta and toga palmata
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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