PROBUS MPR 068 SOLD

OBVERSE: IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG
REVERSE: P M TR P COS P P - emperor standing between two standards
BUST TYPE: B = Radiate, cuirassed bust right with divergent wreath ties of the corona radiata
FIELD / EXERGUE MARKS: -/E//XXI
WEIGHT 3.57g / AXIS: 12h / DIAMETER: 21mm
RIC: 607 (UNLISTED WITH E IN FIELD AND ERRONEOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO SISCIA)
MPR:: 068 (only 1 example cited!)
COLLECTION NO. 1240

Note: Scarce and desirable reverse type struck only at Rome during the first emission and at Siscia.

Unsual for the second phase of Rome's first emmission location of the officina mark in field rather than in the exergue. 

Divergent wreath ties of the corona radiata.  

Only the 3rd example of this exact type known! (the second one is cited by Estiot/Gysen and Guillemain and is in the Vienna Museum collection and the third example is in C. Oliva collection). 

Collection : 03 Probus - Roma