v36_0646 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 258-260
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,28 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan un peu court sur la légende de revers. Beau portrait. Revers inhabituel. Très jolie patine noire
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 heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONS-ERVT AVGG.
Reverse description : Apollon debout de face tourné à gauche, tenant une branche de laurier de la main droite et une lyre de la main gauche posée sur un rocher.
Reverse translation : “Conservator Augustorum”, (Le Conservateur des augustes).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Type 3 ribbons. Invisible pteryga under the paludamentum. Seems rarer than general literature suggests
Type 3 ribbons. Invisible pteryga under the paludamentum. Seems rarer than general literature suggests
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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