v59_0568 - PROBUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 59 (2013)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
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Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 277
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,73 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 5e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Buste tout à fait exceptionnel pour ce type de monnayage. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine vert olive
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Helios 7 (Munich) n° 896 et de la collection Daniel Compas “antoniniani et aureliani exceptionnels”
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en arrière, pointant une lance de la main droite en avant et tenant un bouclier de la main gauche orné d’un Pégase (F8).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORD MILIT/ E/ XXI.
Reverse description : L'empereur et Concordia (la Concorde) debout face à face, se serrant la main.
Reverse translation : "Concordia Militum", (La Concorde des soldats).
Commentary
Sans argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Grand buste héroïque vu de trois quarts en arrière avec les ptéryges larges. Le bouclier est orné d’un Pégase tourné à gauche semblant voler. D’après Sylviane Estiot, un exemplaire de ce type faisait partie de la collection Missong (Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne). Andreas Alföldi avait isolé le coin de droit (pl. XXVI/ 147). Nous serions en présence du deuxième exemplaire recensé de ce buste exceptionnel.
Without surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Large heroic bust seen from three-quarters behind with wide pteryges. The shield is decorated with a Pegasus facing left, appearing to be flying. According to Sylviane Estiot, a example of this type was part of the Missong collection (Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna). Andreas Alföldi had isolated the obverse die (pl. XXVI/ 147). This would be the second recorded example of this exceptional bust.
Without surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Large heroic bust seen from three-quarters behind with wide pteryges. The shield is decorated with a Pegasus facing left, appearing to be flying. According to Sylviane Estiot, a example of this type was part of the Missong collection (Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna). Andreas Alföldi had isolated the obverse die (pl. XXVI/ 147). This would be the second recorded example of this exceptional bust.
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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