Probus

A Danubian officer of the same school as Aurelian, Probus reigned six years, from 276 to 282, almost always on campaign: Gaul cleared of the Germans, the frontiers rebuilt, the soldiers set to planting vines and dredging canals between wars. That rigour undid him: exasperated troops slaughtered him near Sirmium. His coinage is exceptionally varied, above all its helmeted busts.

This coin dates from the final years: the usurpations put down, the emperor prepared the Persian war and set the troops to work in the fields, up to the mutiny at Sirmium.