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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Recovery of the Empire| > |Probus| > RA87903
Probus, Summer 276 - September 282 A.D.
|Probus|, |Probus,| |Summer| |276| |-| |September| |282| |A.D.|, In 277, Probus entered Rome to have his position as Emperor ratified by the Senate. He also began his campaign in Gaul, clearing the Goths and Germanic tribes from the province, and earning the title Gothicus.
RA87903. Billon antoninianus, RIC V-2 862H; Cohen IV 574, SRCV III 12040 var. (obv. leg.); Hunter IV 303 var. (also 2nd officina, no pellets in mintmark), Choice EF, well centered and struck, much silvering, Serdica (Sofia, Bulgaria) mint, weight 4.604g, maximum diameter 24.3mm, die axis 0o, 277 A.D.; obverse IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG, radiate bust left, wearing imperial mantle, eagle-tipped scepter in right; reverse SOLI INVICTO (to the invincible sun god), Sol standing in a facing quadriga, radiate, raising right hand commanding sunrise, whip and globe in left hand, cloak billowing out behind, KA•B• in exergue; ex Beast Coins; SOLD










REFERENCES|

Gautier, G. "Le monnayage d'argent de Serdica après la réforme de Dioclétien" in RN XXXIII (1991).
Gysen, P. "Nouvelles données concernant l'atelier de Serdica sous le règne de Probus" in RBN CXLVI (2000).
Zanchi, P. "Quelques nouveaux antoniniens de Serdica" in SM 120 (November 1980).

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