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Valerianus Antoninian
RIC V 287, Göbl 1685e, MIR 36, RSC 189
Obv: IMP C P LIC VALERIANUS P F AVG
Rv: RESTITVT ORIENTIS
Mint: Samosata. (The ruins near the modern Turkish city of Samsat in Adıyaman Province in southeastern Turkey are now flooded by the Ataturk Reservoir).
Historically relevant type:
The reverse legend, RESTITVT ORIENTIS, proclaims Valerian I as the restorer of the East, with the type echoing the sentiment by showing the figure of a turreted and draped female (the Orient) presenting him with a wreath. It is an historically ironic yet interesting type: shortly after Valerian invaded the Sasanian Empire he was captured and made a slave to the Sasanian monarch, Shapur I. Though the reliability of each of their accounts is suspect and their is also some slight evidence that Valerian was treated humanely, both Eutropius and Lanctantius relate that the aged emperor suffered many indignities at the hands of his captors, and was eventually disposed of by being forced to swallow molten gold or by being flayed alive.
Collezione : Verkauft