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<p>[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3194284, member: 80783"]Thanks for the kind comments and for showing your Valerian Juniors!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The more I look around the more I am think that I made a good deal as I was the only bidder and for just 45 Euros got what might be one of the finest style portraits of Valerian Junior in existence. I found not a single better one on VCoins and the ones that do exist elsewhere are very costly (the one below made 350 CHF at NAC´s last auction).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825252[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Most authors seem to agree that the young Caesar died of natural causes.</p><p><br /></p><p>As he seems to have been, according to his facial features on the coinage, probably no older than ten to twelve years, it is unlikely that he died from combat. </p><p><br /></p><p>If Valerian Junior was murdered, it would have post probably been by schemes of his guardian, the general Ingenuus, but that would appear unlikely (like a murder of Numerianus by Aper) as Ingenuus would wait another two years and only start his usurpation after the capture of Valerian Senior, a development that he could not have foreseen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Intererstingly Amalthea the goat also ascended to the heavens, as, after her death of old age, the grateful gods honored Zeus´ guardian by transforming her into Capella ("little goat"), the brightest star in the constellation of Auriga and one of the brightest in the night sky.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3194284, member: 80783"]Thanks for the kind comments and for showing your Valerian Juniors! The more I look around the more I am think that I made a good deal as I was the only bidder and for just 45 Euros got what might be one of the finest style portraits of Valerian Junior in existence. I found not a single better one on VCoins and the ones that do exist elsewhere are very costly (the one below made 350 CHF at NAC´s last auction). [ATTACH=full]825252[/ATTACH] Most authors seem to agree that the young Caesar died of natural causes. As he seems to have been, according to his facial features on the coinage, probably no older than ten to twelve years, it is unlikely that he died from combat. If Valerian Junior was murdered, it would have post probably been by schemes of his guardian, the general Ingenuus, but that would appear unlikely (like a murder of Numerianus by Aper) as Ingenuus would wait another two years and only start his usurpation after the capture of Valerian Senior, a development that he could not have foreseen. Intererstingly Amalthea the goat also ascended to the heavens, as, after her death of old age, the grateful gods honored Zeus´ guardian by transforming her into Capella ("little goat"), the brightest star in the constellation of Auriga and one of the brightest in the night sky.[/QUOTE]
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