brm_292008 - VALERIAN I Antoninien hybride
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 115.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 115.00 €
Type : Antoninien hybride
Date: 257-258
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,95 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un flan ovale et bien centré. Monnaie probablement fourrée avec l’apparition du cuivre sous l’argenture superficielle. Joli revers
Predigree :
Exemplaire n°422 du trésor de la Guerche-sur-l’Aubois
Obverse
Obverse legend : VALERIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Valerianus Augustus”, (Valérien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES MILITVM.
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche sur un globe, les ailes ouvertes entre deux enseignes militaires.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (la Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Poids léger. Type hybride avec un revers de Gallien ! Le métal fait largement penser à une imitation.
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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