brm_424469 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Price : 25.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 281
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,99 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale à l’usure très importante, lisible et identifiable. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROB-VS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié et cuirassé de Probus à droite avec l’égide posée sur la cuirasse nue et l’égide sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B05).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CON-S - PROB AVG/ -|-// R(FOUDRE)B.
Reverse description : Jupiter, nu le manteau sur l’épaule debout à gauche, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori Probi Augusti”, (A Jupiter le protecteur de l'empereur Probus).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Cuirasse lisse recouverte de l’égide centrée d’une minuscule tête de Méduse. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Épaulière cloutée et ptéryges larges divergentes donnant une impression de relief. C’est le buste normal pour l’atelier de Rome.
With all its surface silvering. Smooth cuirass covered with the aegis centered on a tiny Medusa head. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Studded shoulder guard and wide diverging pteryges giving an impression of relief. This is the normal bust for the Rome workshop.
With all its surface silvering. Smooth cuirass covered with the aegis centered on a tiny Medusa head. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Studded shoulder guard and wide diverging pteryges giving an impression of relief. This is the normal bust for the Rome workshop.
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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