v27_0044 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 600.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 600.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,44 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan extrêmement large, complet et bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait tout à fait extraordinaire et exceptionnel pour le monnayage lyonnais. Frappe faible au revers sur la légende. Oxydation importante dans le champ du revers. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VI-RTVS PROBI AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en arrière, tenant une haste de la main droite et un bouclier en avant (F8).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : M-ARS - VI-CTOR/ -|-// II.
Reverse description : Mars nu et casqué, le manteau sur l’épaule flottant au vent, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite et un trophée reposant sur l’épaule gauche.
Reverse translation : “Mars Victor”, (Mars Victorieux).
Commentary
Avec toute son argenture. Poids lourd. Le Docteur Bastien n’avait relevé que neuf exemplaires dans son corpus en 1976. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du Staatliche Münzsammlung de Munich, Bastien n° 224f, pl. XXVII avec un coin rouillé au revers. C’est le dixième exemplaire recensé. Prendra le numéro 224h dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
With all its silver plating. Heavyweight. Doctor Bastien had only noted nine examples in his corpus in 1976. Same dies as the copy in the Staatliche Münzsammlung of Munich, Bastien no. 224f, pl. XXVII with a rusty die on the reverse. This is the tenth copy recorded. Will take the number 224h in Supplement III of Bastien
With all its silver plating. Heavyweight. Doctor Bastien had only noted nine examples in his corpus in 1976. Same dies as the copy in the Staatliche Münzsammlung of Munich, Bastien no. 224f, pl. XXVII with a rusty die on the reverse. This is the tenth copy recorded. Will take the number 224h in Supplement III of Bastien
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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