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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2013758, member: 56859&quot;]I like the reverse type so much that I picked up another one <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]363150[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>PHOENICIA, Tyre.&nbsp; Valerian I (CE 253-260)</b></p><p>Æ28.5 mm, 12.2 gm</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; IMP CP LIC VALERIANVS AVG; radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; COL TVRO METRO; the building of Carthage: Dido standing left, holding cubit ruler and scepter, surveying construction; mason above gate, worker with pick-axe digging before gate, murex shell to lower right</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; Rouvier 2501; BMC 470; cf Price &amp; Trell 748</p><p><br /></p><p>Emperor Valerian I had the great misfortune to be captured by Shapur I.&nbsp; Depending on who you read, he may have then been:</p><ul> <li>Publicly humiliated by being used as Shapur&#039;s footstool, then flayed alive, stuffed, and mounted; or</li> <li>Allowed to live out his days in the comfort befitting his position, dying of old age at a much later date.</li> </ul><p>Since it&#039;s Halloween, I&#039;ll go with version #1 today <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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