brm_430344 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2022)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2022)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,51 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan irrégulier avec des défauts de métal mais exemplaire de très belle qualité. Joli buste rare. Patine marron aux reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIR-TVS PROBI AVG.
Obverse description : Buste héroïque radié et nu de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en arrière, tenant une haste pointée sur l'épaule nue et un bouclier rectangulaire, l’égide visible sur l’autre épaule (F8).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : HERCVLI PACIF/ -|-// SXXT.
Reverse description : Hercule nu debout à gauche, tenant une branche de la main droite levée et la massue de la main gauche, la léonté enroulée sur le bras.
Reverse translation : “Herculi Pacifero”, (À l’Hercule pacificateur).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Grand buste héroïque l’égide en bouclier protecteur. Nous avons bien une haste en avant avec la pointe bien visible. C’est la première fois que nous présentons ce type à la vente.
Heavyweight. With its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Large heroic bust with the aegis as a protective shield. We have a spear in front with the tip clearly visible. This is the first time we have offered this type for sale.
Heavyweight. With its surface silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Large heroic bust with the aegis as a protective shield. We have a spear in front with the tip clearly visible. This is the first time we have offered this type for sale.
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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