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v38_0828 - VALERIAN I Antoninien

VALERIAN I Antoninien AU
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 255-257
Mint name / Town : Mésie inférieure, Viminacium
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,89 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, centré. Beau portrait inhabituel. Revers de style fin. Jolie patine avec des reflets dorés
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 (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperatori Publio Licinio Valerianus Augusto”, (À l’empereur Publius Licinius Valérien auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VIRTV-S AVG.
Reverse description : Virtus (la Virilité) ou soldat, casqué, vêtu militairement, debout à gauche, tenant une victoriola de la main droite et une haste de la gauche, appuyé sur un bouclier.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augusti”, (La Virilité de l’auguste.

Commentary


Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. Légende au datif inhabituelle au droit et au singulier au revers alors que Gallien est déjà associé à l’Empire.

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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