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bpv_430317 - VALERIAN I Octassaria

VALERIAN I Octassaria XF
290.00 €(Approx. 313.20$ | 249.40£)
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Type : Octassaria
Date: c. 253-260
Mint name / Town : Séleucie du Calycadnum, Cilicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 15,62 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, bien centré, court sur les légendes. Beaux portraits au droit et au revers. Patine verte
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse description : Buste radié drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse legend : AU K [P LIK OUALERI]ANO/Z, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Publios Likinios Oualerianos).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Valérien).

Reverse


Reverse description : Bustes affrontés et drapés d’Apollon et d’Artémis/Tyche ; une palme devant le buste d’Apollon ; Artémis a une petite corne d’abondance derrière le buste.
Reverse legend : SEL/EUKEWN TWN PROS KALUKADN/WU.
Reverse translation : (De Séleucie près du Calycadnus).

Commentary


Bustes de beau style.

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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