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brm_577748 - PROBUS Aurelianus

PROBUS Aurelianus XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2023)
Price : 115.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 278
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,31 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait inhabituel de Probus. Frappe faible et un peu molle sur les légendes et au revers. Patine gris foncé, un peu granuleuse
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : VIRTVS PROBI AVG.
Obverse description : Buste héroïque radié et nu de Probus à gauche, vu de trois quarts en arrière, tenant une haste pointée sur l'épaule nue et un bouclier rectangulaire, l’égide visible sur l’autre épaule (F8).
Obverse translation : “Virtus Probi Augusti”, (La Virilité de Probus auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : FIDE-S M-ILIT/ -|-// VIXXT.
Reverse description : Fides (La Fidélité) debout de face tournée à gauche, tenant deux enseignes militaires.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).

Commentary


Buste héroïque exceptionnel.

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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