Probus RIC 47, with the bust sometimes considered as
Tacitus-Florianus type. 

It was bought this weekend on a flea market for 15 EUR.

Probus AE Antoninianus. Lugdunum Mint.

Obverse: IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust right.
Reverse: PROVIDENTIA AVG, Providentia standing l., holding baton
and sceptre; at foot, globe; III in exe.

Emission 1 Officina 3, October 276 A.D.
References: RIC 47 Bust Type F. Cohen 497. Bastien 153 (16).

December 2005, 15 EUR.



Contributed by Yuri Kabanov, December, 2005.