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Valentinian I, 25 February 364 - 17 November 375 A.D.
In 1423, Despot Andronicus, who was in charge of the Thessaloniki, ceded it to the Republic of Venice in the hope that it could be protected from the Ottomans who were besieging the city (there is no evidence to support the oft-repeated story that he sold the city to them). The Venetians held Thessaloniki until it was captured by the Ottoman Sultan Murad II on the 29th of March, 1430. Murad II took Thessaloniki with a brutal massacre and enslaved roughly one-fifth of the city's native population. During the First Balkan War, on 26 October 1912, the feast day of the city's patron saint, Saint Demetrius, the Greek Army accepted the surrender of the Ottoman garrison at Thessalonika; after the Second Balkan War, in 1913 Thessaloniki was annexed to Greece by the Treaty of Bucharest.RL88736. Bronze centenionalis, RIC IX Thessalonica 16(a)ii (S), LRBC II 1708, SRCV V 19453, Cohen VIII 12, Hunter V -, VF, green patina, well centered, irregular flan, scratches and marks, a little rough, 1st officina, Thessalonica (Salonika, Greece) mint, weight 2.481g, maximum diameter 18.2mm, die axis 180o, 367 - 375 A.D.; obverse D N VALENTINIANVS P F AVG, pearl diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse GLORIA ROMANORVM (glory of the Romans), emperor walking left, dragging captive with right, labarum (chi rho Christogram standard) in left, •TESB in exergue; SOLD
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