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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: septembre
Date: 253
Mint name / Town : Viminacium
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 20,50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,54 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe buste de style très fin ! Belle monnaie recouverte d’une patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP P LIC VALERIANO AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperatori Publio Licinio Valeriano Augusto”, (À l’empereur césar Publius Licinius Valérien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA GERMANICA.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) drapée debout à gauche, appuyée sur un bouclier de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche ; devant le bouclier, un captif assis à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Germanica”, (La Victoire germanique).
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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