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Live auction - brm_829473 - PROBUS Aureus

PROBUS Aureus AU
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2023/06/06 14:00:00
brm_829473
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Type : Aureus
Date: 276-282
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,20 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Superbe buste ainsi qu’un joli revers de style fin. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la vente Inumis, Mail Bid Sale 9, lot n° 220

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Probus à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus” (L’empereur césar Marc Aurèle Probus auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : SECVRITAS SAECVLI // SIS.
Reverse description : Securitas (la Sécurité) assise à gauche, les jambes croisées, son bras gauche posé sur le dossier de son siège soutenant sa tête et tenant de la main droite un sceptre.
Reverse translation : “Secvritas Sæculi”, (la Sécurité du siècle).

Historical background


Probus

(06-07/276-09/282)

Probus was born August 19 232 Sirmium. He leads a distinguished military career in the reigns between Valerian I and Tacitus. He was commander of the Eastern Army in the death of Tacitus, immediately proclaimed emperor and triumphs easily Florien is murdered. This is serious. The Rhine-Danube limes yielded under the pressure of the Germanic invasions. Probus restore peace in Gaul, Germania and Raetia in which he inflicted a severe defeat on the Germanic peoples in Thrace where he crushed the Sarmatians and Scythians in Asia Minor that cleans looters and pirates Pamphylians finally in Africa where he puts an end to raids Blemmyes. In 280, he signed peace with Vahram II Sassanid monarch. He must face the theft of Saturninus, Proculus and Bonosus. Probus, having triumphed over all his enemies, 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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