Ancients => She's my new gal => She's my Galeria Valeria

Hey, I found myself a sweet new girlfriend ... funny name, but super cute!!

Galeria Valeria. Augusta, Æ Follis
Cyzicus mint, 4th officina
Struck circa AD 308
293(?)-311 AD
Diameter: 26 mm
Weight: 6.34 grams
Obverse: Diademed and draped bust right
Reverse: Venus standing facing, head left, lifting dress and holding apple; MKΔ
Reference: RIC VI 38
Other: 1h … dark brown to black patina

 

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A beautiful example of a less-common coin! You're going Roman on us Steve.

 

That is a really great coin. Mine, not so great but a reasonable filler for now:
http://www.tantaluscoins.com/coins/107806.php

 

She's beautiful! She has the JackieO look going on.

Are you feeling okay, Steve? That's two coins without animals you've purchased recently

 

@Pishpash, posting the actual images in the thread is preferable (to me, at least!) to clicking a link. I often don't bother to click on thumbnails or links to view "pile on" images. Your coins might get more appreciation if you post full images . If you want to drive traffic to your Tantalus gallery, just put it in your sig line

 

Thanks TIF will do, I am just being lazy

 

And I'm being lazy by not wanting to make a few extra clicks to view the thumbnails or links

It's really no harder to post the images than to post the link though.

 

I know where they are on Tantalus

 

I have a man who clicks the mouse for me. However, he sometimes right-clicks when he's supposed to left-click. You can't seem to find good help these days.

 

Right-click on your Tantalus image; copy. On CoinTalk, in your reply just click the picture icon in the thread tools, right-click and paste the image URL. Easy

 

super centered, struck, and detailed..sweet surfaces...she's hot stevex!

the venus reverse is cool as well.

 

@stevex6

=> Valeria. I once knew a gal(eria) by the name.

Makes me think of a song, by similar sounding name, Velouria.



Perhaps a lexical stretch. Though like ones love for a coin or girl,

"Say to me, where have you been?"

Without further astray, what a lovely coin! A Venus in surfaces, conditions, colour, etc.

Thanks for sharing your new beau.

 

This coin was minted during her happy years, when she was married to Galerius. Her life is an intriguing window into the politics of the Tetrarchy. For whatever reasons, she had no children with Galerius, but she had the generosity of heart to adopt his illegitimate son Candidianus. Would you have done the same?

After Galerius died, her life went downhill in a hurry. She and her mother were entrusted to the care of Licinius, but they fled from him. Is there any scholarship on why they were averse to Licinius?

She refused the marriage proposal of Maximinus, so he confiscated all her property and banished her to Syria. When Maximinus died, Licinius, obviously still smarting from his rejection, ordered the death of both women. Valeria fled to Thessalonica, but she was discovered by the mob, beheaded in the central square, her body tossed into the sea.

What could have provoked such anger and violence? There doesn't seem to be any record of Valeria inciting scorn through any actions other than spurning a few powerful men. She was sympathetic to Christians, and perhaps that was enough. In fact, she was eventually canonized.

Her life appears to ask the age-old existential question of why bad things happen to good people...

 

At Antioch a flaming altar is added.

 

Looks like one of my Harems has departed me, but looking at the OP, she looks drugged up....."DUDE!!...why am I in icy Canada & not sunny L.A."

Nice addition Steve.

Her "stern" sister is below:

 

Good quality never disappoints. A beautiful coin.

On the death of Galeria, J.J. Norwich says that Licinius saw room for only one imperial family, Constantine's, of which he was a member by his marriage to Constantia, half-sister of Constantine. The Thessalonican mob has probably been incited by agents of Licinius.
On the whole, all this didn't help Licinius one bit: in the end he was executed on charges of treason by Constantine.

 

great coin!!!

 

Since I don't own a coin of Valeria, I'll chip in an attractive Helena - a coin of similar style...

 

Steve love the corn rows in her hair.great details as always, here's mine..

Galeria Valeria..305-311
24x26mm x 6.50g.



Also have Helena..328-329..AD..
really like the double cresent
18mmx 2.63g.

 

Some really cool coins.

Steve, best not let the wife see that title when your surfing CT.