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Price : 225.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 225.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 280-281
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,31 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait consulaire. Joli revers inhabituel. Patine marron foncé avec des reflets métalliques au revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de ROME V, n° 459 et de la collection D. R
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié consulaire de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio de la main gauche (H4).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI I-N-VICT-O/ -|-// -.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié debout de face, la tête à gauche dans un quadrige écartelé, levant la main droite et tenant un fouet de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto”, (Au SoleiliInvincible).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Buste consulaire richement décoré avec la toga picta et la toga palmata.
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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