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brm_230335 - VALERIAN I Antoninien

VALERIAN I Antoninien AU/XF
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Price : 95.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: printemps
Date: 257
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,24 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait de Valérien Ier. Frappe molle au revers. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
RIC.117  - C.183  - RC.2895 (30£) - Eauze1181  - RCV.9968 (55$)

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F 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 Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Valérien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : RESTITVTOR ORBIS.
Reverse description : Valérien Ier, vêtu militairement, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche, tendant la main à une femme agenouillée qu’il relève.
Reverse translation : “Restitutor Orbis”, (Le Restaurateur du monde).

Commentary

Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum.

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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