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| End of the sale : | 24 October 2023 15:32:43 |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 257-258
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 3,84 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan centré. Légère faiblesse au droit mais de jolis détails. Frappe plus molle au revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP VALERIANVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Valerianus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Valérien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SECVRIT PERPET.
Reverse description : Securitas (la Sécurité) debout à gauche, drapée, les jambes croisées, le bras gauche appuyé sur une colonne, tenant un sceptre long de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Securitas Perpetua”, (La Sécurité perpétuelle).
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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