Live auction - brm_520908 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
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| Estimate : | 220 € |
| Price : | 141 € |
| Maximum bid : | 141 € |
| End of the sale : | 29 January 2019 14:43:12 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Antoninien
Date: printemps - fin
Date: 254
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,42 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux cotés. Superbe portrait mais revers mou. Patine grise
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Cet exemplaire provient du stock de CGB
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 et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELIC-ITAS AVGG.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité), drapée debout à gauche, tenant un caducée long de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Augustorum”, (La Félicité des augustes).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Rubans de type 3.
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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