brm_387336 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Price : 120.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 120.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 279
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,34 g.
Officine: 6e
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP PROB-VS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant un haste de la main droite posée sur l'épaule et un bouclier (E1).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Probus Augustus”, (L'empereur Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ADVENTVS - PROBI AVG/ -|-// R(CROISSANT POINTÉ)S.
Reverse description : L'empereur à cheval, galopant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un sceptre de la gauche ; devant lui, un captif assis, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Adventus Probi Augusti”, (L'Arrivée de l'auguste Probus).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Casque et couvre nuque est décoré. La cuirasse lisse est ornée de l’égide et de la tête de Méduse. Le bouclier est clouté et orné d’un motif extérieur. Haste ne coupant pas la légende.
Very heavy weight. Helmet and neck guard are decorated. The smooth cuirass is decorated with the aegis and the head of Medusa. The shield is studded and decorated with an external motif. Haste does not break the legend
Very heavy weight. Helmet and neck guard are decorated. The smooth cuirass is decorated with the aegis and the head of Medusa. The shield is studded and decorated with an external motif. Haste does not break the legend
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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