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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Recovery of the Empire| > |Probus| > RA96855
Probus, Summer 276 - September 282 A.D.
|Probus|, |Probus,| |Summer| |276| |-| |September| |282| |A.D.|, The reverse advertises the good fortune (felicitas), peace (the caduceus) and prosperity (cornucopia) Probus has brought to the empire. Indeed, the fortune of the empire did improve under the leadership of Probus, but it was not a quite a time of peace and prosperity.
RA96855. Billon antoninianus, apparently unpublished, RIC V-2 683C (R) var., Alföldi Siscia V 30/23-24 var., Hunter IV 289 var., Cohen VI 220 var., SRCV III 11973 var., VF, well centered, porosity/light corrosion, 3rd officina, Siscia (Sisak, Croatia) mint, weight 3.953g, maximum diameter 22.5mm, die axis 0o, c. 280 A.D.; obverse IMP C M PROBVS INVICT AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse FELICITAS AVG (the good fortune of the Emperor), Felicitas standing left, long caduceus vertical in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, Γ right, XXI in exergue; ex trustedcoins.com; this obverse legend and officina combination is apparently unpublished and we were unable to find another example of this extremely rare variant; SOLD











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