v43_0593 - VALERIAN I Unité
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 160.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 160.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Unité
Date: 253-260
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Pisidie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,25 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait particulier. Revers légèrement stylisé. Jolie patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CAE P AELL OVAALPIAN.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Publius Aelius Valerianus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Aelius Valérien).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANTIOC-HIO CL/ S. R..
Reverse description : Aigle légionnaire entre deux enseignes militaires.
Reverse translation : “Antiochio Colonia/ Senatus Romanus”, (Colonie d’Antioche/ le Sénat romain).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Style barbare. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF (n° 1320, pl. 71). Même coin de droit que les exemplaires du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF (n° 1319-1322, pl. 71).
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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