brm_303209 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
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Price : 75.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 253-254
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,90 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré. Très beau portrait de Valérien Ier. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du trésor de Rocquencourt, publié dans “trésors monétaires VIII”, 1986
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 : FORT[VN]A REDVX.
Reverse description : Mercure nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant une bourse de la main droite et un caducée de la main gauche ; Mercure est surmonté d’un croissant orné d’une étoile.
Reverse translation : “Fortuna Redux”, (Le retour de la Fortune).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum.
Heavy weights. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Invisible pteryga under the paludamentum
Heavy weights. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Invisible pteryga under the 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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