Live auction - brm_914462 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
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| Estimate : | 40 € |
| Price : | 31 € |
| Maximum bid : | 31 € |
| End of the sale : | 20 August 2024 15:30:50 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 255-256
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,03 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais, ovale, centré. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine grise
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 : VENVS VICTRIX.
Reverse description : Vénus debout à gauche, tenant une pomme de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche, appuyée sur son bouclier.
Reverse translation : “Venus Victrix”, (Vénus victorieuse).
Commentary
Monnaie hybride associant un droit de Valérien Ier (avec une importante double frappe) et un revers de Salonine.
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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