v21_3155 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
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Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 257
Mint name / Town : Atelier secondaire d’Orient, (Commagène Samosate ?)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 20,50 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,77 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Joli revers. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F 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 Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Valérien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIETAS AVGG.
Reverse description : Valérien Ier et Gallien debout face à face, laurés et vêtus de la toge ; Valérien tient le scipio de la main gauche et une patère de la main droite et sacrifiant au-dessus d'un autel paré et allumé ; Gallien tient le parazonium de la main gauche, la main droite levée.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augustorum”, (La Piété des augustes).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
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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