brm_1056808 - PROBUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 277 - début 278
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,51 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan large, centré. Très joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Joli buste. Patine grise. Avec une partie de son argenture
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection J. S
Obverse
Obverse legend : VI-RTVS PROBI AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, casqué, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en arrière, tenant une haste de la main droite et un bouclier en avant (F8).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : M-ARS - VI-CTOR/ -|-// II.
Reverse description : Mars nu et casqué, le manteau sur l’épaule flottant au vent, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite et un trophée reposant sur l’épaule gauche.
Reverse translation : “Mars Victor”, (Mars Victorieux).
Commentary
Le Docteur Bastien n’avait relevé que trois exemplaires dans son corpus en 1976.
Doctor Bastien had only noted three examples in his corpus in 1976
Doctor Bastien had only noted three examples in his corpus in 1976
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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