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brm_580130 - GALERIA VALERIA Follis ou nummus

GALERIA VALERIA Follis ou nummus XF
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Price : 120.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 309-310
Mint name / Town : Héraclée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,88 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré des deux côtés. Fine usure régulière. Joli buste. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
C.2 var. (8f.) - RIC.43  - RC.-  - MRK.-
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la vente Rauch, septembre 2013, lot n° 986

Obverse

Obverse legend : GAL VAL-ERIA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de Galeria Valeria à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (L5).
Obverse translation : “Galeria Valeria Augusta”, (Galéria Valéria augusta).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VENERI V-ICTRICI// HTB.
Reverse description : Vénus drapée debout à gauche, tenant une pomme de la main droite et soulevant un pan de son vêtement de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Veneri Victrici", (À Vénus victorieuse).

Historical background

Galeria VALERIA

(315) Galeria Valeria

Diocletian's daughter, wife of Galerius - Augusta (308-311)

Galeria Valeria is the daughter of Diocletian and Galerius Maximian adopting 293, Diocletian made him marry his daughter. It appears on the coinage after the conference of Carnuntum (11/11/308) but it disappears after her husband's death in 311. She remained under the protection of Maximin Daia II. After the latter's death in 313, she had to flee, and Licinius was the murder two years later.

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