v27_0054 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 27 (2006)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
Realised price : 250.00 €
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
Realised price : 250.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,80 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait sur un flan légèrement ovale. Frappe faible sur la légende au droit et au revers. Style fin de la Virilité. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Laurent Schmitt
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à gauche avec la trabea, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et la mappa de la main gauche (H6).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIR-T-VS AVG/ -|-// IIII.
Reverse description : Mars, casqué, vêtu militairement, debout à gauche, tenant une Victoriola de la main droite et un sceptre long et un bouclier de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti”, (La Virilité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Sans Argenture. Le Docteur Bastien avait répertorié sept exemplaires en 1976. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF (AF. n° 12.862), Bastien n° 258b, pl. XXX. Même coin de droit que les exemplaires du British Museum, Bastien n° 258c, pl. XXX et que l’exemplaire de l’Ashmolean Museum d’Oxford, n° 258d, pl. XXX. C’est le huitième exemplaire recensé. Prendra le numéro 258f dans le Supplément III du Bastien.
Without Silvering. Doctor Bastien had listed seven examples in 1976. Same dies as the example in the Cabinet des médailles of the BnF (AF. n° 12.862), Bastien n° 258b, pl. XXX. Same obverse die as the examples in the British Museum, Bastien n° 258c, pl. XXX and as the example in the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford, n° 258d, pl. XXX. This is the eighth example listed. Will take the number 258f in Supplement III of Bastien
Without Silvering. Doctor Bastien had listed seven examples in 1976. Same dies as the example in the Cabinet des médailles of the BnF (AF. n° 12.862), Bastien n° 258b, pl. XXX. Same obverse die as the examples in the British Museum, Bastien n° 258c, pl. XXX and as the example in the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford, n° 258d, pl. XXX. This is the eighth example listed. Will take the number 258f 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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