brm_943110 - GALERIA VALERIA Follis
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Type : Follis
Date: 311
Mint name / Town : Héraclée
Metal : billon
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,08 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier, légèrement échancré. Beau portrait de Galéria Valéria. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine vert foncé
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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" (Galeria Valéria Augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VENERI V-ICTRICI/ *|-// HT(DELTA).
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).
Commentary
Poids léger. Chevelure finement détaillée.
Historical background
GALERIA VALERIA
(+315)
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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