v41_0989 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,56 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et ovale. Beau revers. Avec une grande partie de son argenture
Catalogue references :
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) ; buste héroïque.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMAE AETERNAE/ -|-// R.
Reverse description : Rome assise dans un temple à six colonnes (hexastyle), tenant une victoriola et un sceptre.
Reverse legend : D
Reverse translation : “Romæ Æternæ”, (À Rome éternelle).
Commentary
Avec les restes de son argenture superficielle. Portrait très particulier, avec la cuirasse lisse, vu à mi corps, héroïque. Ptéryges larges et flottantes visibles sous le paludamentum. Ce dernier est posé sur la cuirasse lisse (lorica, chalcochiton) ou cuirasse ornée des empereurs ou des généraux. Dans le trésor de La Venèra, il y a seulement deux exemplaires avec ce type de buste et cette légende et S. Estiot a recensé cinq exemplaires au total.
With the remains of its superficial silver plating. A very unusual portrait, with a smooth breastplate, seen from the mid-body, heroic. Large, floating pteryges are visible under the paludamentum. The latter is placed on the smooth breastplate (lorica, chalcochiton) or decorated breastplate of emperors or generals. In the treasure of La Venèra, there are only two examples with this type of bust and this legend and S. Estiot has identified five examples in total
With the remains of its superficial silver plating. A very unusual portrait, with a smooth breastplate, seen from the mid-body, heroic. Large, floating pteryges are visible under the paludamentum. The latter is placed on the smooth breastplate (lorica, chalcochiton) or decorated breastplate of emperors or generals. In the treasure of La Venèra, there are only two examples with this type of bust and this legend and S. Estiot has identified five examples in total
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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