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Roman Emperor:  PROBUS

     Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus
       Roman Reign:  276 - 282 AD.

 AE Antoninianus: Size: (23mm) / Weight: (3.63gm)

           Lyons mint, Struck: late 277 AD.

 

Description:

A Very Nice AE Antoninianus with great detail  in superior condition: 

Struck in the time of Roman Emperor Probus... 

             

 Obverse:  IMP C  PROBVS P F AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust right.. 
                                           (dotted legend),  (Type F)   
                     

Reverse: ABVNDANTIA AVG,   Abundantia standing 
               right emptying cornucopiae.      IIII  in exergue...  

 

Ref:  RIC 17 
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Probus   History:

born AD 232,  in Sirmium, Pannonia now Serbia. and—died 282 AD.  

Roman emperor from ad 276 to 282.
The son of a Balkan military officer, Probus served with distinction in the army 

and apparently was eastern praetorian prefect when his troops proclaimed him 

emperor in opposition to Florian, who was soon killed by his own men. 

Probus’s reign was spent in continual frontier warfare against hostile tribes on 

the Rhine and Danube, complicated by insurrections in Britain, Gaul, and the East. 

His policy of allowing outside tribes to settle within the empire proved dangerous.
Fourth-century writers attest to his intense interest in agriculture. 

He encouraged the planting of vineyards in Gaul, Spain, and Britain.

 

Different accounts of Probus's death exist.   According to some historians, the 

commander of the Praetorian Guard Marcus Aurelius Carus had been proclaimed, 

more or less unwillingly, emperor by his troops.
Probus sent some troops against the new usurper, but when those troops changed 

sides and supported Carus,   Probus' remaining soldiers assassinated him at 

Sirmium (September/October 282 AD). 
According to other sources, however, Probus was killed by disgruntled soldiers, 

who rebelled against his orders to be employed for civic purposes, like draining 

marshes. Allegedly, the soldiers were provoked when they overheard him 

lamenting the necessity of a standing army. Carus was proclaimed emperor after 

Probus' death and avenged the murder of his predecessor.

 

According to the favorable treatment of the Augustan History, Probus was the 

last of the benevolent constitutional emperors of Rome. While his successor Carus 

(Imp. 282-284) simply disdained to seek the senate's confirmation of his title, the 

latter's successor Diocletian (Imp. 284-305) took active measures to undermine its 

authority, and established the autocratic nature and divine derivation of the Imperial 

power. Never again, after Diocletian's reforms, would the Roman senate play an 

active role in the management of the empire. On the military sphere, Probus' 

victories continued the succession of martial Illyrian emperors begun by 

Claudius Gothicus, which restored the military supremacy of Rome after defeats 

sustained during the crisis of the third century.

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