New Video! Probus! Lets look at coins from all his 9 mints

[Leo]

New episode is up! Lets go over the coinage of this very competent emperor, so loved by many numismatists such as myself. Enjoy!
Post any Probus coins you like 🙂
 

 

[ewomack]

My only Probus coin and the first ancient coin that I ever purchased. Thanks to this forum, I was ecstatic to find out that it doesn't actually have bronze disease, despite appearances. @Leo I also enjoy your videos - I have seen maybe 10 or more at this point.

Probus AE Antoninianus. Siscia, 281 AD. IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG, radiate draped bust right / CLEMENTIA TEMP, Probus standing right, holding sceptre, receiving Victory from Jupiter standing left, holding sceptre. Officina letter in lower centre. Mintmark XXI. Cohen 87, Ric 644.

Edited August 7, 2022 by ewomack

[Octavius]

 I love his videos - my favorite of YouTube.

 

[Curtis JJ]

A truer statement was never made: "Probus deserves more screen time"!
Great Probus-captives, @Octavius!

Here's my Lugdunum, 4th emission. Before the video I'd never heard that the mint's coins have a particular good layering of silvering, but there is indeed still a good layer visible on this one. The reverse is a bit weak but I got this particular specimen because I wanted one from the great collector of Probus coins, Philippe Gysen (1950-2019). It looks better in some of the references listed:

Probus BI Antoninianus (4.08g). Lugdunum (4th em., 4th off.), late 277 CE.
Obv: IMP C PROBVS PF AVG. Radiate, cuirassed bust right.
Rev: ABVNDANTIA AVG / IIII. Abundantia standing right, emptying cornucopiae held in both hands.
Ref: RIC 17; Bastien 196 (Supp II-e, this coin).
Prov: This coin = Ex Philippe Gysen (1950-2019; his inventory #5) = Philippe Gysen Collection, Part II, Jacquier 46 (20 Sept 2019), Lot 315 = Berliner Münzauktion 74 (31 October 1992), Lot 512 = Bastien Suppl II 196-e (this coin) = Hiland & Oliva (2013), Le Règne de l'Empereur Probus, Histoire et Numismatique (276-282 apr. J.-C.), Page 79, No. 9 (this coin illustrated) = Probvs.net RIC 17 (ex. 1 of 3, this coin) = Probuscoins.fr Coin ID 555 (this coin).

Edited August 8, 2022 by Curtis JJ

[Curtisimo]

Another great video @Leo.

Here is my Probus from the Tripolis mint.

Roman Empire
Probus, BI Antoninianus, Tripolis mint, second officina, struck ca. AD 276-282
Dia.: 22 mm
Wt.: 3.82 g
Obv: IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev: CLEMENTIA TEMP•, emperor standing right, holding eagle-tipped sceptre, receiving globe from Jupiter, holding sceptre, crescent in lower centre, KA in ex. 
Ref.: RIC V(b) 927.
Ex Doug Smith Collection (illustrated on his webpage for Probus), acquired in 1997 from Kreuzer

[Justin Lee]

A provincial Probus

Probus, Ruled 276-282 AD
AE20 Tetradrachm, Alexandria, Egypt
Struck Year 4, 278-279 AD
Obverse: A K M AVP ΠPOBOC CЄB, Laureate and cuirassed bust right.
Reverse: Eirene holding olive branch and sceptre, LΔ to right (RY 4 = 278/279 AD)
References: Emmett 3986.4, R1
Size: 20.2mm, 7.9g
Ex: The Reverend Willis McGill Collection (McGill was an American missionary stationed in Egypt, who started collecting there during World War I)

[Original collector’s envelope has incorrect attribution.]

[shanxi]

Probus (276-282)
Antoninianus, Rome
Obv.: IMP PROBVS AVG, Radiate bust left in imperial mantle, holding sceptre surmounted by eagle.
Rev.: SOLI INVICTO, R /crescent and star/ E in ex, Sol driving quadriga left, raising hand, holding globe and whip
4.43g, 22.4mm
Ref.: RIC 202

 

Probus
Egypt, Alexandria
Billon Tetradrachm
Obv.: K M AYP ΠΡΟΒΟC CEB, Laureate and cuirassed bust right.
Rev.: L - B = year 2 (AD 276-277), Eagle standing left, head right, wreath in beak.
Billon, 6.77g, 20.5mm
Ref.: Geissen 3126, Kampmann/Ganschow 112.5
Ex Pecunem 10, Group Lot 869

Probus
Egypt, Alexandria
Billon Tetradrachm
Obv.: K M AYP ΠΡΟΒΟC CEB, Laureate and cuirassed bust right.
Rev.: LΔ, year 4, 278-279, Tyche standing left, rudder in right, cornucopia in left.
Billon, 7.78g, 20mm
Ref.: Geissen 3141-43, Kampmann/Ganschow 112.21

 

Probus
Egypt, Alexandria
Billon Tetradrachm
Obv.: K M AYP ΠΡΟΒΟC CEB, Laureate and cuirassed bust right.
Rev.: L - Δ, year 4, 278-279, Eagle standing right, wreath in beak, palm on wing
Billon, 7.47g, 19.34m
Ref.: Geissen 3135, Kampmann/Ganschow 112.17

 

 

[maridvnvm]

One of my many, many Lugdunum 

Rome. A rare use of the vertical crescent in the mint mark

Part of the coded series from Ticinum 

Mars types are prolific at Siscia

Serdica

RIC 911 is the most prolific  type from Cyzicus. This is one of the earlier issues

Antioch

Tripolis

Unspecified eastern mint

Alexandria - 

Ex-Col. James W. Curtis Collection.
Ex-Olympus #5 catalogue (December 1982)
Ex-Keith Emmett Collection.

Described by Col. Curtis as "Very Rare" on his 2x2 coin holder, which still accompanies the coin. Rated R4 by Emmett.

[Curtis JJ]

7 hours ago, Justin Lee said:

Original collector’s envelope has incorrect attribution

Thank you for sharing an image of the collector's envelope as well! Hope you don't mind that I was adding it to my "database" ... (Still too small for a "database," really, but I have used it to ID one coin/tag with lost provenance, hand-written by Rev. Edgar Rogers (1873-1960/1), in someone else's collection, I still don't think I have a Rev. Rogers [FAC 103980, 767591 (21 Feb 2022), Curtis]). BUT...

I discovered I already have a photo of one of these Rev. W. McGill envelopes! (This one can serve as a duplicate photo if you don't mind.) The first one was for a Domitian AE Diobol from Alexandria. Starting to sound familiar? The source.... (hope you don't mind) =

[CT Post 4223676 (8 Mar 2020), Justin Lee/iOmega Coll.]

Edited August 8, 2022 by Curtis JJ

[Justin Lee]

4 hours ago, Curtis JJ said:

Thank you for sharing an image of the collector's envelope as well! Hope you don't mind that I was adding it to my "database" ... (Still too small for a "database," really, but I have used it to ID one coin/tag with lost provenance, hand-written by Rev. Edgar Rogers (1873-1960/1), in someone else's collection, I still don't think I have a Rev. Rogers [FAC 103980, 767591 (21 Feb 2022), Curtis]). BUT...

I discovered I already have a photo of one of these Rev. W. McGill envelopes! (This one can serve as a duplicate photo if you don't mind.) The first one was for a Domitian AE Diobol from Alexandria. Starting to sound familiar? The source.... (hope you don't mind) =

[CT Post 4223676 (8 Mar 2020), Justin Lee/iOmega Coll.]

Sounds like a great idea and service you'd be able to provide! 👍