v38_0826 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 257-258
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,01 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait inhabituel de Valérien Ier. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
C.204 var. - RIC.256 - RSC.204 - Cunetio747 - Eauze1448 - RCV.9976 - MRK.88 /63 - MIR.36/869 c (12 ex.)
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP VALERIANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Valerianus Augustus”, (L’empereur Valérien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SECVRIT PERPET.
Reverse description : Securitas (La Sécurité) debout à gauche, drapée, les jambes croisées, le bras gauche appuyé sur une colonne, tenant un sceptre long de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Securitas Perpetua”, (La Sécurité perpétuelle).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Portrait particulier. Rubans de type 1. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum.
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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