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brm_674339 - VALERIAN I As

VALERIAN I As VF/XF
VF/XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 120.00 €
Type : As
Date: 255
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,7 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie bien centrée frappée sur un flan assez court, avec un joli buste de l’empereur et un revers bien détaillé. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
C.59  - RIC.193

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Caesar Publius Licinius Valerianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur César Publius Licinius Valérien Pieux Heureux Auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : FELICITAS AVGG/ S|C.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant un caducée de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Augustorum”, (La Félicité des augustes).

Commentary

Poids très léger.

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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