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Aureus - Probus VICTORIAE AVG; Victory

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Issuer RomeRoman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD)
Emperor Probus (Marcus Aurelius Probus) (276-282)
Type Standard circulation coins
Years 276-282
Value Aureus (25⁄2)
Currency Antoninianus, Reform of Caracalla (AD 215 – 301)
Composition Gold
Weight 6.4 g
Diameter 21 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
293927
References RIC V.2# 916d
Percy H. Webb, Harold Mattingly, Edward Allen Sydenham; 1933. The Roman Imperial Coinage / Volume 5.2. Marcus Aurelius Probus – Maximian (AD 276–310). Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.
, OCRE# ric.5.pro.916
Online Coins of the Roman Empire (http://numismatics.org/ocre/)

Obverse

Bust of Probus, laureate, draped, cuirassed, right.

Script: Latin

Lettering: IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG

Translation:
Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus Augustus.
Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar Marcus Aurelius Probus, emperor (Augustus).

Reverse

Victory, winged, draped, in slow quadriga, left, holding wreath in right hand and palm in left hand.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
VICTORIAE AVG
-/-//-

Translation:
Victoriae Augusti.
To the victory of the emperor (Augustus).

Mint

Antioch on the Orontes, Syria, modern-day Antakya, Turkey

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (276-282) 
ND (276-282)  "A" in exergue;

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