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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 85.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: automne 253 - début 254
Date: 253-254
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,90 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, bien centré. Portrait bien venu à la frappe, comme Jupiter au revers mais petites faiblesses sur les légendes. Patine grise
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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 Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Valérien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONSER-VATORI.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori”, (À Jupiter conservateur).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3.
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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