E-auction 62-29010 - bpv_308327 - VALERIAN I Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 75 € |
| Price : | 14 € |
| Maximum bid : | 20 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 June 2014 16:24:30 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 4
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,87 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier. Portrait de Valérien Ier légèrement piqué. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse legend : A K P LI OUALERIANOS EUEUS, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Poublios Likinios Ouvalerianos Eusebios).
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Valérien pieux).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L -.
Reverse description : Homonoia () drapée debout à gauche, tenant une double corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : D.
Reverse translation : (An 4).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 3. La cuirasse semble ornée d’une égide et de la tête de Méduse.
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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