bpv_657991 - VALERIAN I Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: c. 253-260
Mint name / Town : Tyr, Phénicie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 14,90 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure très importante, lisible et identifiable. Patine marron superficielle granuleuse
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Cet exemplaire a été acquis en février 1994
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AV.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Valerianus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Valérien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : COL T-VRO MET.
Reverse description : Kadmos nu jusqu’à la ceinture courant à droite, regardant derrière, levant la main droite et tenant une lance de la main gauche ; un murex dans le champ gauche.
Reverse translation : “Colonia Turo Metropolis”, (Colonie de Tyr métropole).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3.
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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