bpv_249181 - VALERIAN I Diassaria
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Price : 95.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 95.00 €
Type : Diassaria
Date: c. 253-260
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie,Troade
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,14 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Valérien Ier. Revers bien venu à la frappe, de haut relief. Jolie patine vert olive clair
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Cet exemplaire provient de la liste 1 d’Elsen
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP LIC VALERIA.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien à droite vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Licinus Valerianus", (L'empereur Licinius Valérien).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CLO. AVG// TRO.
Reverse description : Cheval paissant à droite.
Reverse translation : “Colonia Augusta Troas”, (Colonie Augusta de Troade.
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines à peine visibles sous le paludamentum.
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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