brm_235497 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Price : 30.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278-279
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,35 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. A été nettoyée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : M-ARS - VI-CTOR/ -|-// II.
Reverse description : Mars, nu casqué, le manteau flottant marchant à droite tenant de la main droite une haste transversale et de la gauche un trophée reposant sur son épaule.
Reverse translation : “Mars Victor”, (Mars Victorieux).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse cloutée et épaulière lisse. Ptéryges fines. Légende non pontuée. Malgré la rareté, nous n’avons pas noté de liaison de coin pertinente. C’est le septième exemplaire recensé. Prendra le numéro 275g dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Studded breastplate and smooth shoulder pad. Fine pteryga. Legend not bridged. Despite the rarity, we did not note any relevant corner binding. This is the seventh example recorded. Will take number 275g in Supplement III of Bastien
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Studded breastplate and smooth shoulder pad. Fine pteryga. Legend not bridged. Despite the rarity, we did not note any relevant corner binding. This is the seventh example recorded. Will take number 275g 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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