正面
正面的文字 IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG.
正面的说明书 Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Valérien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant.
正面的翻译 “Imperator Cæsar Publius Licinius Valerianus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Publius Licinius Valérien auguste).
背面
背面的文字 COL IVL. AVG. FEL// BER.
背面的说明书 Astarte debout de face ; à droite une nike sur une colonne.
背面的翻译 “Colonia Iulia Augusta Beritus”, (Colonie Julia augusta de Berytus).
历史细节
VALERIAN I
(07/253-06/260)
Valérien was born in 193 and led a brilliant political and military career. Main collaborator of Trajan Decius, he was proclaimed august in 253. He got rid in turn of Trebonian Galle and Volusian, then Emilian, and immediately associated his son Gallien to the throne. In 256, a Gothic invasion threatened the Black Sea provinces. Shapur (Sapor), Sassanid king, arrives in front of Antioch the following year. Valerian I began the great persecution against Christians in 258. In 259, the Empire, already weakened, was invaded on the Rhine-Danubian limes and in the East. Chapour (Sapor) seizes Antioch. Valérien goes to meet him, but is beaten and taken prisoner. Chapour (Sapor) will use the deposed emperor as a stepping stone before having him flayed alive. Christians see it as the chastisement of God punishing persecution, which Gallien hastened to stop.