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Price : 60.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 60.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: automne 253 - début 254
Date: 253-254
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,70 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire bien centré sur un flan ovale. Joli portrait mais revers mou. 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 Caesar Publius Licinius Valerianus Augustus", (Empereur César Publius Licinius Valérien Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS - AVGG.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité), casquée et vêtue militairement debout à gauche, tenant une haste de la main gauche et un bouclier de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (La Virilité des augustes).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente !.
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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