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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Recovery of the Empire| > |Probus| > RA87678
Probus, Summer 276 - September 282 A.D.
|Probus|, |Probus,| |Summer| |276| |-| |September| |282| |A.D.|, The reverse depicts the double temple of Venus and Roma, designed by Hadrian, the largest and most splendid temple in Rome, finished by Antoninus Pius sometime between 140 and 145. Damaged by fire in 307, the temple was restored "in magnificent manner" by Maxentius (Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus, XL). When Constantius visited Rome fifty years later, the so-called Temple of the City was one of the sights that he most admired (Ammianus, History, XVI.10.14). In 625, Pope Honorius received a special dispensation from Heraclius to strip the gilded bronze roof tiles for the repair of St. Peter's. During a twelve-day visit to Rome in 663, Constans II stripped it of its remaining bronze ornaments. It was damaged by an earthquake in 847. Later a church was built in the ruins.
RA87678. Billon antoninianus, RIC V-2 737; Cohen VI 556; Pink VI-1, p. 50; SRCV III -, Choice VF, dark brown patina, light corrosion, 4th officina, Siscia (Sisak, Croatia) mint, weight 3.167g, maximum diameter 25.1mm, die axis 180o, 277 A.D.; obverse IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG, radiate bust left in consular robe, eagle-tipped scepter in right hand; reverse ROMAE AETERNAE (to eternal Rome), hexastyle temple, statue of Roma seated facing inside, Victory in her right hand, long scepter vertical in her left hand, shield leaning against seat on left, three steps, wreath on pediment, XXIQ in exergue; SOLD











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