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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Valerian I| > RS90000
Valerian I, October 253 - c. June 260 A.D.
|Valerian| |I|, |Valerian| |I,| |October| |253| |-| |c.| |June| |260| |A.D.|, This ironic reverse utterly failed to foresee Valerian's fate. In 260 A.D., after four years of great losses in battle and to plague, Valerian arranged for talks. He set off with a small group to discuss terms with the Sasanian (Parthian) Emperor Shapur but was never seen again. The date of his death is unknown. In Rome, it was rumored that Shapur used his stuffed body as a footstool.

RIC assigns this issue to Antioch but MIR gives the issue to a second Eastern mint located at Samosata.
RS90000. Billon antoninianus, Göbl MIR 1700q (Samosata), RSC IV 190 (Antioch), RIC V-1 287 (Antioch), SRCV III 9967 (uncertain Syrian mint), VF, well centered on a tight flan, porous, uncertain Syrian mint, weight 4.068g, maximum diameter 19.5mm, die axis 0o, 255 - 256 A.D.; obverse IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse RESTITVT ORIENTIS (to the restorer of the East), Valerian (on right) and turreted female (the Orient) standing confronted, female presenting wreath, Valerian holding spear vertical in left, wreath above; SOLD











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