Posted 09/04/2011 03:30 am
It is a difficult one. 3rd century Radiates are my favourites though!
It is as echizento says Valerian, albeit a fat one:
Apollo, nude, standing left, raising branch in right hand, resting left hand on lyre at feet, Q in right field.
Göbl 168b - Not sure of RIC
Minted in Rome - not sure if the Q refers to the 4th officinea.
Defeated and captured by Shapur of the Persians Valerian was (if you believe some accounts) subjected to many indignities such as being used as a footstool. Valerian was eventually killed, skinned and stuffed with straw and placed as a trophy in a Persian palace.
Might not be true but much more exiting than the other account of him living out his life under house arrest in a far flung villa.
He was at the time the only Roman emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war causing widespread shock.
It is as echizento says Valerian, albeit a fat one:
Apollo, nude, standing left, raising branch in right hand, resting left hand on lyre at feet, Q in right field.
Göbl 168b - Not sure of RIC
Minted in Rome - not sure if the Q refers to the 4th officinea.
Defeated and captured by Shapur of the Persians Valerian was (if you believe some accounts) subjected to many indignities such as being used as a footstool. Valerian was eventually killed, skinned and stuffed with straw and placed as a trophy in a Persian palace.
Might not be true but much more exiting than the other account of him living out his life under house arrest in a far flung villa.
He was at the time the only Roman emperor to be captured as a prisoner of war causing widespread shock.
Edited by bobbyhelmet
09/04/2011 03:31 am
09/04/2011 03:31 am
