bpv_221119 - VALERIAN I Sesterce
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Price : 105.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 105.00 €
Type : Sesterce
Date: an 16
Mint name / Town : Viminacium, Mésie Supérieure
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28,00 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 10,19 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince, large, éclaté au revers à 3 heures. Beau portrait. Usure importante, mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Jolie patine vert olive foncé granuleuse
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP VALERIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré drapé et cuirassé de Valérien à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Valerianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L'empereur Valérien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P M S C-OL VIM// AN XVI.
Reverse description : La Mésie debout de face tournée à gauche, placée devant un taureau à gauche tourné à droite et un lion à droite tourné à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Provinciæ Moesiæ Superioris Colonia Viminacium/ anno sextum decimum”, (Province de Mésie Supérieure colonie de Viminacium/ an seizième).
Commentary
C’est la dernière année de frappe pour Viminacium. A. Kotschev a recensé treize sesterces de l’an XVI avec quatre coins de droit pour l’ensemble des variétés avec un poids moyen de 9,92 g. Le poids théorique des sesterces (18,04 g) chute de manière drastique depuis l’an VIII et perd en moyenne un gramme par année.
This is the last year of minting for Viminacium. A. Kotschev identified thirteen sesterces from the year XVI with four obverse dies for all the varieties with an average weight of 9.92 g. The theoretical weight of sesterces (18.04 g) has fallen drastically since year VIII and lost on average one gram per year
This is the last year of minting for Viminacium. A. Kotschev identified thirteen sesterces from the year XVI with four obverse dies for all the varieties with an average weight of 9.92 g. The theoretical weight of sesterces (18.04 g) has fallen drastically since year VIII and lost on average one gram per year
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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