brm_351309 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 09-11/253
Date: 253
Mint name / Town : Viminacium
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,44 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP VALERIANVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Valerianus Pius Augustus”, (L’empereur Valérien pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDE-S MILITVM.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée debout à gauche, tournant la tête à droite, tenant une enseigne militaire dans chaque main ; dans la main droite, un vexilla, dans la main gauche, un signa placé transversalement.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
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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