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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Late Empire| > |Valens| > RL06795
Valens, 28 March 364 - 9 August 378 A.D.
|Valens|, |Valens,| |28| |March| |364| |-| |9| |August| |378| |A.D.|, On 21 July 365, an undersea earthquake between magnitudes 8 and 9 near Crete caused a tsunami that completely devastated North Africa from Alexandria in Egypt to what is now Morocco, killing untold millions and nearly wiping out Greco-Roman civilization on the Mediterranean's southern coast. It would take centuries for the region to completely recover.
RL06795. Bronze centenionalis, RIC IX Alexandria 3b or 5b, F, small flan, 4th officina, Alexandria mint, weight 1.67g, maximum diameter 13.7mm, die axis 180o, 28 Mar 364 - 24 Aug 367 A.D.; obverse D N VALENS P F AVG, Pearl-diademed bust right; reverse SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE (security of the Republic), Victory walking left, wreath in right hand, palm frond in left hand, ALEΔ in exergue; SOLD











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