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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Valerian I| > BB90074
Valerian I, October 253 - c. June 260 A.D.
|Valerian| |I|, |Valerian| |I,| |October| |253| |-| |c.| |June| |260| |A.D.|, RIC V 106 lists this type as either holding a whip or a globe, issued in 257, and common. This type holding a globe should be listed as an entirely separate issue. Göbl dates it to Rome's third issue, Aug 256 - Dec 256 A.D. With only two specimens in the Cunetio hoard and few examples online, it appears to be scarce.
BB90074. Billon antoninianus, Göbl MIR 108b, Cunetio 45 (2 spec.), RSC IV 140 var. (no cuirass), RIC V-1 106 var. (same), SRCV III -, Hunter IV -, aVF, nice portrait, well centered on a tight flan, flan crack, porous, 3rd issue, Rome mint, weight 2.280g, maximum diameter 19.2mm, die axis 315o, Aug 256 - Dec 256 A.D.; obverse IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG, radiate and draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse ORIENS AVGG (the rising sun of the two emperors), Sol standing facing, radiate head left, nude but for chlamys over shoulders, left arm and hanging down back, raising right hand commanding the sun to rise, globe in left hand; scarce; SOLD










OBVERSE| LEGENDS|

CONCORDIAAVGVSTORVM
PIETASAVGVSTORVM
FELICIBVSAVGG
IMPCAESPLICVALERIANVSAVG
IMPCPLICVALERIANOAVG
IMPCPLICVALERIANVSAVG
IMPCPLICVALERIANVSPAVG
IMPCPLICVALERIANVSPFAVG
IMPCVALERIANVSPFAVG
IMPPLICVALERIANOAVG
IMPVALERIANVSAVG
IMPVALERIANVSPAVG
IMPVALERIANVSPFAVG
IMPVALERIANVSPIVSAVG
IMPVALERIANVSPIVSFELAVG
VALERIANVSPFAVG

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