v21_3350 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Mysie, Cyzique (Cyzicus)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,76 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Patine vert gris avec des reflets métalliques. Revers de haut relief
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VIRTVS PR-OBI - AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste posée sur l'épaule et un bouclier orné d’un cavalier galopant à droite et terrassant un ennemi (E1).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ADVENT-VS PROBI AVG.
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 Probus auguste).
Commentary
Sans marque d’officine à l’exergue du revers. Sans argenture. Au droit, le bouclier est orné d’une scène conforme au revers “Virtus Probi Aug” avec l’empereur terrassant un ennemi.
No official mark on the exergue of the reverse. No silver plating. On the obverse, the shield is decorated with a scene consistent with the reverse “Virtus Probi Aug” with the emperor defeating an enemy
No official mark on the exergue of the reverse. No silver plating. On the obverse, the shield is decorated with a scene consistent with the reverse “Virtus Probi Aug” with the emperor defeating an enemy
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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