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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2795885, member: 75937&quot;]Galeria Valeria was the daughter of Diocletian and the wife of Galerius. Good fortune abandoned her after the death of her husband in AD 311. On his deathbed, Galerius asked Licinius I to look after her and his son, but Valeria feared for her safety and fled to the court of her nephew, Maximinus II Daia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maximinus Daia proposed marriage to her but she refused and he confiscated her estates and banished her and her mother to Syria despite the protestations of her father, Diocletian. </p><p><br /></p><p>When Maximinus Daia neared death, Valeria escaped and wandered Syria for months until discovered in Thessalonica in 315, at which time Licinius had her beheaded. </p><p><br /></p><p>Post your Galeria Valerias! They don&#039;t have a variety of reverse types, to be sure, but the portrait style varies considerably from mint to mint and makes for an interesting study.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]650430[/ATTACH] </p><p>Galeria Valeria, daughter of Diocletian, wife of Galerius, Augusta, 293(?)-311 CE</p><p>Roman Æ Follis; 26 mm, 6.64 gm</p><p>Nicomedia mint, 308-310 CE</p><p>Obv: GAL VAL-ERIA AVG, diademed and draped bust right</p><p>Rev: VENERI VI-CTRICI CMH, Venus standing facing, head left, holding apple and drapery; in exergue, SMNA</p><p>Refs: RIC VI 57; Sear 14595[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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