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E-auction 502-413022 - brm_699305 - PROBUS Aurelianus

PROBUS Aurelianus VF
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Estimate : 25 €
Price : 10 €
Maximum bid : 13 €
End of the sale : 28 November 2022 14:33:30
bidders : 4 bidders
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278-279
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,34 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie bien centrée, un joli buste. Patine hétérogène
Catalogue references :
B.287 pl. XXXIII (25 ex.) - RIC.84  - B.334  - ROME 2/79  - Compas-

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 et heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : MARS VICTOR// III.
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).

Historical background

Probus

(06-07/276-09/282)

Probus was born August 19 232 Sirmium. He leads a distinguished military career in the reigns between Valerian I and Tacitus. He was commander of the Eastern Army in the death of Tacitus, immediately proclaimed emperor and triumphs easily Florien is murdered. This is serious. The Rhine-Danube limes yielded under the pressure of the Germanic invasions. Probus restore peace in Gaul, Germania and Raetia in which he inflicted a severe defeat on the Germanic peoples in Thrace where he crushed the Sarmatians and Scythians in Asia Minor that cleans looters and pirates Pamphylians finally in Africa where he puts an end to raids Blemmyes. In 280, he signed peace with Vahram II Sassanid monarch. He must face the theft of Saturninus, Proculus and Bonosus. Probus, having triumphed over all his enemies, 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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