bpv_531878 - VALERIAN I Tétradrachme
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Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 3
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 10,57 g.
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Exemplaire sur un flan avec un beau portrait. Frappe décentrée au revers. Patine vert foncé
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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 : Eirene (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant une branche d’olivier de la main droite tenduee un sceptre de la main gauch.
Reverse legend : G.
Reverse translation : (An 3).
Commentary
Poids 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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