v21_3491 - GALERIA VALERIA Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
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Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 308-309
Mint name / Town : Hellespont, Cyzique, (Cyzicus)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,05 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large et complet des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Joli revers de très beau style. Magnifique patine vert olive profonde
Obverse
Obverse legend : GAL VAL-ERIA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Galéria Valéria, avec draperie, à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (L5).
Obverse translation : "Galeria Valeria Augusta", (Galéria Valéria augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VENERI V-ICTRICI/ (DELTA)|-// MKV.
Reverse description : Vénus drapée debout à gauche, tenant une pomme de la main droite et soulevant un pan de son vêtement de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Veneri Victrici", (À Vénus victorieuse).
Historical background
GALERIA VALERIA
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Daughter of Diocletian, wife of Galerius - Augusta
Galeria Valeria is the daughter of Diocletian. By adopting Maximien Galère in 293, Diocletian had his daughter married to the latter. Galeria Valeria appears on the coinage after the conference of Carnuntum (11/11/308), but disappears from it after the death of her husband in 311. She remains under the protection of Maximin II Daia. After the disappearance of the latter in 313, she must flee. Licinius had her murdered two years later.
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