brm_1018132 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 253
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,54 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Belle monnaie frappée sur flan ovale et centré, présentant quelques faiblesses. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Valerianus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Valérien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELICITAS PVBLICA.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée, debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant un caducée de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la gauche, posant le coude gauche sur une colonne.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Publica”, (La Félicité Publique).
Commentary
Hybride associant un droit de Valérien Ier et un revers de Trébonien Galle. Un exemplaire de cet type se trouve dans le trésor de Nanterre, RN. 1946, n° 1844, pl. IV/ 10. De la plus grande rareté, !.
Historical background
VALERIAN I
(07/253-06/260)
Valérien was born in 193 and led a brilliant political and military career. Main collaborator of Trajan Decius, he was proclaimed august in 253. He got rid in turn of Trebonian Galle and Volusian, then Emilian, and immediately associated his son Gallien to the throne. In 256, a Gothic invasion threatened the Black Sea provinces. Shapur (Sapor), Sassanid king, arrives in front of Antioch the following year. Valerian I began the great persecution against Christians in 258. In 259, the Empire, already weakened, was invaded on the Rhine-Danubian limes and in the East. Chapour (Sapor) seizes Antioch. Valérien goes to meet him, but is beaten and taken prisoner. Chapour (Sapor) will use the deposed emperor as a stepping stone before having him flayed alive. Christians see it as the chastisement of God punishing persecution, which Gallien hastened to stop.
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