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v36_0647 - VALERIAN I Antoninien

VALERIAN I Antoninien XF
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: c. 253-255
Mint name / Town : Mésie Supérieure, Viminacium
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,35 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP VALERIANVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Valerianus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Valérien pieux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : CONCOR L-EGG.
Reverse description : Concordia (la Concorde) drapée assise à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une double corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia legionarum”, (La Concorde des légions).

Commentary


Rubans de type 3. Les ptéryges sont invisibles sous le paludamentum. C’est la première fois que nous présentons un antoninien de ce type qui semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.

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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