brm_618939 - VALERIAN I Antoninien
120.00 €(Approx. 126.00$ | 99.60£)
Quantity
Add to your cart
Type : Antoninien
Date: c. 253-255
Mint name / Town : Viminacium
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,33 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire, très légèrement décentré au revers. Joli buste. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP VALERIANVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, 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 : CONCOR L-EGG.
Reverse description : Concordia (la Concorde) drapée assise à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une double corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia legionarum”, (La Concorde des légions).
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.
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sell
Full data
cgbfr.com numismatists
