v41_1075 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Thrace, Serdica
Metal : billon
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,26 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait consulaire à droite. Revers fantastique où tous les détails sont visibles. Magnifique patine marron glacé avec des reflets métalliques. Conserve son brillant et son coupant de frappe au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main gauche (H4).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI I-N-VICT-O.
Reverse description : Sol (Le Soleil) radié debout de face dans un quadrige écartelé, levant la main droite et tenant un fouet de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au Soleil invincible).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Buste consulaire richement ornementé avec la toga picta et la toga palmata. Motif décoratif sur la poitrine. Couronne sur l’épaule.
Heavyweight. With its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Richly ornamented consular bust with the toga picta and the toga palmata. Decorative motif on the chest. Crown on the shoulder.
Heavyweight. With its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Richly ornamented consular bust with the toga picta and the toga palmata. Decorative motif on the chest. Crown on the shoulder.
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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