brm_278247 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 55.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 55.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 257-258
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,51 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Joli portrait sur un petit flan mince. Beau revers. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP VALERIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Valerianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Valérien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANNONA AVGG.
Reverse description : Annona (l’Annone) debout à gauche, tenant une corne d’abondance de la main gauche, des épis au dessus d’une modius de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Annona Augustorum”, (L’Annone des augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Rare type que nous présentons pour la première fois à la vente !.
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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