v38_0825 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 253-254
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,32 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince, large et complet des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers légèrement stylisé. Jolie patine de collection avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS 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 heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONSER-VATORI.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule, tenant un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori”, (À Jupiter conservateur).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum.
Type 3 ribbons. Pteryga barely visible under the paludamentum
Type 3 ribbons. Pteryga barely visible under the paludamentum
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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