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Price : 65.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,79 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais, légèrement ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait consulaire. Joli revers de style fin. Patine gris foncé avec des reflets métalliques dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main droite (H2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIR-T-V-S - AVG// QXXT.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) casquée, vêtue militairement debout à gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et une haste de la gauche en s’appuyant sur un bouclier.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti”, (La Virilité de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 1 aux extrémités bouletées. Manteau consulaire richement ornementé avec la toga picta et la toga palmata, le palstron orné d’un motif géométrique et l’épaulière d’une couronne.
Very heavy weight. With all its surface silver plating. Type 1 ribbons with rounded ends. Richly ornamented consular mantle with the toga picta and the toga palmata, the breastplate decorated with a geometric pattern and the shoulder guard with a crown
Very heavy weight. With all its surface silver plating. Type 1 ribbons with rounded ends. Richly ornamented consular mantle with the toga picta and the toga palmata, the breastplate decorated with a geometric pattern and the shoulder guard with a crown
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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