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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8274486, member: 26430&quot;]I much appreciate the discussion of Probus&#039; busts, mints, emissions, etc. Though he&#039;s a favorite of mine within RIC, Probus is just a small, non-systematic sub-collection for me. (I have a grabbed a dozen or so for their attractive busts, and/or for fitting my other sub-collections, &quot;captives &amp; enemies&quot; or &quot;from interesting collections/publications.&quot;)</p><p><br /></p><p>So I don&#039;t usually work through a full monograph or specialized articles. But this level of material is helpful for getting a bit of a grip on his vast and varied coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I love that captive type from the aureus die. That one seems a bit rare to hope for one, but I&#039;ve got a few other &quot;captives&quot; types.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse on my VICTORIA GERM below isn&#039;t as impressive as some, but as a collector of Roman &quot;captives&quot; coinage, the reverse is fabulous (possibly the last most artistic of the two-captives-and-trophies type, begun by Julius Caesar over 325 years before, as the later versions were never this good again).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460789[/ATTACH]</p><p>The Claudius II version of the two-captives-and-trophy reverse (VICTORIA GOTHIC) is noticeably inferior (they&#039;re supposed to be Gothic captives, but one wonders if that isn&#039;t Parthian/Sassanian headwear, copied from Septimius or Caracalla&#039;s coins):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460802[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t exactly know whether the captive on the next type (ADVENTVS PROBI AVG// XXIB; RIC 632?) is meant to specifically represent a German or other tribal enemy:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460816[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen others from the same emission, I believe, at Serdica, in which there may be enough detail of headwear and clothing to indicate an Eastern (Parthian, Sassanid) captive (e.g., <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=128216" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=128216" rel="nofollow">Rauch 71 [28 Apr 2003], 912</a>, RIC 634).</p><p><b>Not my coin</b>:[ATTACH]1460817[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another detail that I love about the coinage of Probus, evident in the examples above from both [USER=31620]@maridvnvm[/USER] and [USER=115816]@barnaba6[/USER] , is how much the single collector, Philippe Gysen, was able to contribute! I made a point of tracking down and buying at least one of his coins (so far), since I found the story of his collection so impressive and fascinating.</p><p><br /></p><p>(I posted it above, but this one is Gysen&#039;s own photo, I believe, also used on Probvs.net: [ATTACH]1460824[/ATTACH])</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Paging through the ERIC II section on Probus (or any other reference) it&#039;s astonishing how many types are only known or first published from the Gysen collection. Amazing to think he accomplished that in such a short life.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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