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Price : 245.00 €
Type : Unité
Date: 253-260
Mint name / Town : Baalbeck (Héliopolis) , Syrie, Coelé-Syrie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 18,22 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie légèrement décentrée au droit. Flan épais. Joli buste. Patine verte et sable
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAES P LIC 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 Cæsar Publius Licinius Valerianus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Valérien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COL IVL AVG FEL HEL.
Reverse description : Athlète debout de face, tenant une longue palme.
Reverse translation : “Colonia Julia Augusta Felicitas Heliopolitana”, (Colonie Julia Augusta heureuse Héliopolitaine).
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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