v36_0733 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 219.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 300.00 €
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 219.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 300.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Pannonie Supérieure, Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,08 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 5e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire tout à fait exceptionnel sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté en “camée”. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS PR-OBI AVG/ -|-// XXIV.
Reverse description : Probus vêtu militairement, galopant à gauche, terrassant avec sa haste un ennemi tombé à terre et allongé à gauche sous le cheval.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Commentary
Sans argenture. Grand buste héroïque avec la cuirasse visible sous le paludamentum avec le sein souligné. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges larges visibles sous le paludamentum. Ce dernier est posé sur la cuirasse lisse (lorica, chalcochiton) ou cuirasse ornée des empereurs ou des généraux.
Without silver plating. Large heroic bust with the cuirass visible under the paludamentum with the breast highlighted. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Wide pteryges visible under the paludamentum. The latter is placed on the smooth cuirass (lorica, chalcochiton) or decorated cuirass of emperors or generals
Without silver plating. Large heroic bust with the cuirass visible under the paludamentum with the breast highlighted. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Wide pteryges visible under the paludamentum. The latter is placed on the smooth cuirass (lorica, chalcochiton) or decorated cuirass of emperors or generals
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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