bpv_493316 - VALERIAN I Tetrassaria
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Type : Tetrassaria
Date: c. 253-260
Mint name / Town : Larissa, Thessalie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,54 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais bien centré. Beau buste de Valérien Ier. Frappe tréflée au revers. Belle patine verte épaisse
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection BCD et de la vente CNG Eauction 383, 2016, n° 401
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Obverse legend : AU K ΠOΛI OUAΛЄRIANOS
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Publius Vélérien).
Reverse
Reverse description : Athéna Itonia, casquée et drapée marchant à droite, brandissant une javeline transversale de la main droite et tenant un bouclier de la main gauche, l’égide sur la poitrine.
Reverse legend : KOINON - QESSALWN/ D|-// -
Reverse translation : (du Koinon des Thessaliens).
Commentary
Traces de tréflage dans la légende.
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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