v21_3151 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 253-254
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie, Antioche (Antiochia ad Orontem)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,47 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets bleutés et irisés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Valerianus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Valérien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FORTVNA REDVX.
Reverse description : Mercure nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant une bourse de la main droite et un caducée de la main gauche ; Mercure est surmonté d’un croissant orné d’une étoile.
Reverse translation : “Fortuna Redux”, (Le retour de la Fortune).
Commentary
Type de revers inhabituel.
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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