brm_204075 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 50.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 50.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: fin 254
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,62 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire bien centré sur un flan ovale, légèrement irrégulier et échancré à 6 heures au droit. Très joli portrait. Frappe molle et faible au revers. Fine patine grise
Catalogue references :
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 : FIDES MILITVM.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une enseigne militaire dans chaque main.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Rubans de types 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Trace de frappe incuse du droit au revers. Frappé avec un coin usé au revers.
With all its silver plating. Type 3 ribbons. Pteryges invisible under the paludamentum. Trace of incuse strike on the obverse. Struck with a worn die on the reverse
With all its silver plating. Type 3 ribbons. Pteryges invisible under the paludamentum. Trace of incuse strike on the obverse. Struck with a worn die on the reverse
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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