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Probus, Summer 276 - September 282 A.D.
Virtus was a specific virtue in ancient Rome. It carried connotations of valor, manliness, excellence, courage, character, and worth, perceived as masculine strengths (from Latin vir, "man"). Virtus applied exclusively to a man's behavior in the public sphere, that is to the application of duty to the res publica in the cursus honorum. Private business was no place to earn virtus, even when it involved courage or feats of arms or other good qualities. There could be no virtue in exploiting one's manliness in the pursuit of personal wealth, for example. It was thus a frequently stated virtue of Roman emperors and was personified as the deity Virtus.RA87246. Billon antoninianus, Alföldi Siscia V 96, 46; RIC V-2 812F; Pink VI-1, p. 51; SRCV III 12071; Cohen VI 885 var. (bust left), Choice EF, well centered, much silvering, some die wear, 2nd officina, Siscia (Sisak, Croatia) mint, weight 3.340g, maximum diameter 21.7mm, 4th emission, 277 A.D.; obverse IMP C PROBVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right; reverse VIRTVS PROBI AVG (the valor of Emperor Probus), Mars walking right, helmeted, transverse spear in right hand, trophy over shoulder in left, XXIS in exergue; SOLD
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