Ancient Coins: Probus, the Most Unique Roman Coins
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- Lets have a look at the very creative and unusual coinage of Emperor Probus, who left us a numismatic legacy full of diversity and collectible types. We're going through each of the mints and evaluating its stylistic differences.
Aureii of Probus credit of the Trustees of the British Museum
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Beautiful coins. Probus did mint some spectacular pieces of art. I myself am proud to own handful of his coins including a rare Ticinum Consular bust type with COS II in the obverse legend.
I remember about 15 years ago that someone came into the market and started buying up all the good Probus coins that were available. I mean everything from the major dealers, everything on Vcoins, everything in the big auctions, even everything on eBay--they hoovered them up and outbid everyone else. Rumor was they were preparing a reference book of Probus coinage, maybe an updated volume of RIC. I never did hear who it was for sure, but everytime I see a good Probus coin it pops into my mind.
great video - As Always! Interesting that you mention the Lungdunum coins having thin features.. because the Antoninianus I own shows Mars with a little beer belly... besides the thin legs & arms...
Great video! Very informative and lovely coins! Thank you! 👍🙏👏
I've always had a soft spot for Probus largely because of his memorable provincial Egyptian issues--big lovely ponderously thick, almost classically "Greek-looking", things. Egypt, even under Roman rule, maintained its own distinct type of currencies and coinage on the old Ptolemaic Macedonian model. Probus' issues in particular were memorably fine. I'm surprised you didn't feature one in this episode. Maybe you'll get around to those Egyptian billon issues some day. In the meantime, I'm gonna rummage through your back catalog for that earlier Probus episode you mention.
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15:10 One theory is that the mint of Tripolis might not have been the same Tripolis as in Syria, it was a common name afterall, and could have been the one in Phrygia. Not my theory but that of archaeologist "F. Redö"
Fantastic detail and information! Thank you very much for sharing this
what an incredible video as always! Love me some probus, should be time to order the adventvs shirt soon!
Thank you for another great and informative video! I was just on Vcoins this morning looking at good ol Probus.
Nice review of Probus and his coins. Thanks.
What a wonderful series of videos this is! Thank you!!
Theres more to come!
Amazing video Leo.
Thank you again.
One of my favorite coins is an antninionus of Probus. The silvering is long gone but in its place is an oxblood patina, the red coloring really highlights the features well.
You win my personal approval for a novel way to spell the difficult word "antoninianus". With which I often have trouble, myself. :D
Super coin bro👍
Probus was my 1st Roman Ancient coin. So I have a little bit soft spot for Probus coins 😅
There is more Probus content coming, you will be quite happy :)
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As my very first Roman (Ancient) coin, Probus' one has to be one of most underrated/undervalued one considering its abundance and quality design.
Very good video. Probus coins are always so intricate and unique :) . I love the shields !
I hope in future you can do a video of the coinage of the last few emperors of Rome, I recently acquired a half-siliqua of Majorian (romes last great emperor) but have struggled to find any information on it
My cynical gen Z sense of humor can't stop laughing at "But, of course, we can't have anything good in this world without it being ruined."
Romans really liked messing good things up too! They might very well have been the first Zoomers
We want AURELIAN!!!
Im still in the process of getting a few important coins of him for a PROPER episode.
It will come, I promise, and it will be GLORIOUS.
@@ClassicalNumismatics I trust your hard effort for a good video☀️💪. PS i have one antoninianus from him😂
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Nice Gear & Lesson!
Babe wake up, it's Probus time
You are a gem! Thanks
I think I probably have about 8 coins of probus.
They are getting a bit more difficult to get hold of.
The trophy type of Siscia is very rare
I love Probus
military bust is always better that a normal one
Do you do collection analysis? I imported bout a hundred various world coins dating from phyregia to Bizantium.
Maybe in the future. Currently unfortunately I simply dont have the time to do such a service.
hello, great vids from a new fan and new collector. a question if i may, is it possible for a constantin coin to have no mint mark? tnx
Nice. I have some ancient coins.
Good coins
Hi, just a small note at minute 4:19. The mint of Ticinum is way to the west compared to the map you showed. (I just know because I'm from the modern day Ticinum )
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I have not seen a video on contorniate. They are not, strictly speaking, coins, but they are nonetheless interesting historically.
I have 1985 one rupee indian note
Are you from Lithuania?
Brazil.
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I found a coin that seems to be quite old, but I don’t know how to find out exactly how old. This is way outside my area of expertise. Can any of you knowledgeable persons help me. I have photos to show. Thank you.