Live auction - brm_1055074 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
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Live starting : Type : Antoninien
Date: printemps - fin
Date: 255-256
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,22 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Superbe monnaie, centrée des deux côtés. Buste de toute beauté, finement détaillé. Revers à l’usure régulière. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F 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 et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIBERALITAS AVGG.
Reverse description : Gallien et Valérien Ier assis à gauche ; derrière, un préfet.
Reverse translation : "Liberalitas Augustorum", (La Libéralité des augustes).
Commentary
C’est la première fois que nous présentons cet exemplaire à la vente.
This is the first time that we are presenting this example for sale.
This is the first time that we are presenting this example for sale.
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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