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brm_615827 - VALERIAN I Sesterce

VALERIAN I Sesterce XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 220.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: c. 254
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 9,14 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré. Usure régulière. Joli buste. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, 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 : VIRTVS AVGG/ S|C.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) casqué et vêtu militairement debout à gauche, appuyé de sa main droite sur un bouclier et tenant une haste de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (La Virilité des augustes).

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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