bpv_493356 - VALERIAN I Decassaria
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Type : Decassaria
Date: 253-254
Mint name / Town : Anazarbus, Cilicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 16,68 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, court sur la légende droit. Beau buste de Valérien Ier à l’usure prononcée. Joli revers inhabituel. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Schulten de mars 1990, n° 917 et de la vente CNG Eauction 152, 2006, n° 184
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*1).
Obverse legend : AUT K P LIK OU-ALERIANOS SE.
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Valérien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse description : Six petites urnes agonisitiques en deux lignes.
Reverse legend : A.M.K./ G ETROS G/ ANAZAR/BOU.
Reverse translation : (d’Anazarbus).
Commentary
Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire de la collection von Aulock (n° 5509) et même coin de droit que les exemplaires de la collection Levante (n° 1519) et de la collection du Cabinet des médailles de la BNF (n° 2163.
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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