brm_596285 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Price : 280.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,48 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau buste de Probus inhabituel. Usure superficielle au revers. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à gauche avec égide sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B1).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (EL’empereur c ésar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS - P-R-OBI AVG// XXIVI.
Reverse description : Mars nu et casqué, marchant à droite, le manteau flottant sur l'épaule gauche, tenant un trophée posé sur son épaule gauche et une haste transversale de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilit de Probus Auaguste).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 2 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines et tombantes. Égide sur l’épaule. Semble complètement inédit et non recensé. Manque aux ouvrages consultés.
Very heavy weight. With its surface silver plating. Type 2 ribbons with rounded ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Thin, drooping pteryges. Aegis on the shoulder. Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Missing from the consulted works
Very heavy weight. With its surface silver plating. Type 2 ribbons with rounded ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Thin, drooping pteryges. Aegis on the shoulder. Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Missing from the consulted works
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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