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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Recovery of the Empire| > |Probus| > RA73212
Probus, Summer 276 - September 282 A.D.
|Probus|, |Probus,| |Summer| |276| |-| |September| |282| |A.D.|, Providentia is the personification of the ability to foresee and to make provision for the future. This ability was considered essential for the emperor and providentia was among the embodiments of virtues that were part of the imperial cult. Cicero said that providentia, memoria (memory) and intellegentia (understanding) are the three main components of prudentia, the knowledge what is good or bad or neither.
RA73212. Billon antoninianus, Cohen VI 486G; RIC V-2 399; Pink VI-1, p. 61; cf. SRCV III 12013 (emission 7, E left); Hunter IV 144 (emission 10, Q left), F, well centered, rough, 2nd officina, Ticinum (Pavia, Italy) mint, weight 3.790g, maximum diameter 23.1mm, die axis 225o, emission 3, 277 A.D.; obverse VIRTVS PROBI AVG (the valor of Emperor Probus), radiate, helmeted and cuirassed bust left, spear in right over shoulder, shield on left arm; reverse PROVIDENT AVG (the foresight of the Emperor), Providentia standing half left, globe in extended right hand, long transverse scepter in left hand, SXXT in exergue; SOLD











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