brm_644478 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
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Price : 35.00 €
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Price : 35.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 257-258
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,41 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan légèrement décentré au revers. Joli buste. Patine grise
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du trésor de Guercheville
Obverse
Obverse legend : 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 : "Valerianus Pius Felix Augustus", (Valérien pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ORIE-N-S AVGG.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) nu, radié, debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un fouet de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Oriens Augustorum", (L'Orient des augustes).
Commentary
Rubans de type 1. Légende ponctuée au droit.
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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