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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4847483, member: 99456"][USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER], I'd say you chose a very nice Valerian - mine of this type not as well struck as yours, but also one where I was attracted to a better than average portrait style for this emperor and an interesting early type of Valerian (first year of rule).</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse "<i><b>to Apollo who defends us</b></i>" linked with the story of Apollo killing the serpent at Delphi and creating the Pythian games, described in Ovid's Metamorphoses:</p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Unwilling she [Earth] created thus enormous Python. Thou unheard of serpent spread so far athwart the side of a vast mountain, didst fill with fear the race of new created man. </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">The God that bears the bow (a weapon used till then only to hunt the deer and agile goat) destroyed the monster with a myriad darts, and almost emptied all his quiver, till envenomed gore oozed forth from livid wounds. </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Lest in a dark oblivion time should hide the fame of this achievement, sacred sports he instituted, from the Python called “The Pythian Games.” </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">- Ovid, Metamorphoses, <a href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses1.html#5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses1.html#5" rel="nofollow">The First Pythian Games</a>, translated by Brookes More, 1922</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>And illustrated in this <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1947-0412-3-13" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1947-0412-3-13" rel="nofollow">1589 engraving by Hendrik Goltzius</a> which can be found in the British Museum collections</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1170394[/ATTACH]</p><p>with more to the story <a href="http://ovidsmetamorphoses.blogspot.com/2011/02/apollo-and-serpent.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ovidsmetamorphoses.blogspot.com/2011/02/apollo-and-serpent.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> on "Pythian" coming not from Python but from from Greek <i>"<b>putho</b>" </i>meaning "rot" of the serpent's remains and vapors from its decomposition inducing sybyl's prophetic trance.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1170354[/ATTACH]<b>Valerian I</b>, AD 253-260, AR Antoninianus, Rome mint, 1st emission, AD 253 <b></b></p><p><b>Obv: </b>IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>APOLINI PROPVG, Apollo standing right, drawing bow</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RIC V <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.val_i.74" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.val_i.74" rel="nofollow">74</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4847483, member: 99456"][USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER], I'd say you chose a very nice Valerian - mine of this type not as well struck as yours, but also one where I was attracted to a better than average portrait style for this emperor and an interesting early type of Valerian (first year of rule). The reverse "[I][B]to Apollo who defends us[/B][/I]" linked with the story of Apollo killing the serpent at Delphi and creating the Pythian games, described in Ovid's Metamorphoses: [INDENT][SIZE=4] Unwilling she [Earth] created thus enormous Python. Thou unheard of serpent spread so far athwart the side of a vast mountain, didst fill with fear the race of new created man. The God that bears the bow (a weapon used till then only to hunt the deer and agile goat) destroyed the monster with a myriad darts, and almost emptied all his quiver, till envenomed gore oozed forth from livid wounds. Lest in a dark oblivion time should hide the fame of this achievement, sacred sports he instituted, from the Python called “The Pythian Games.” - Ovid, Metamorphoses, [URL='https://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses1.html#5']The First Pythian Games[/URL], translated by Brookes More, 1922[/SIZE][/INDENT] And illustrated in this [URL='https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1947-0412-3-13']1589 engraving by Hendrik Goltzius[/URL] which can be found in the British Museum collections [ATTACH=full]1170394[/ATTACH] with more to the story [URL='http://ovidsmetamorphoses.blogspot.com/2011/02/apollo-and-serpent.html']here[/URL] on "Pythian" coming not from Python but from from Greek [I]"[B]putho[/B]" [/I]meaning "rot" of the serpent's remains and vapors from its decomposition inducing sybyl's prophetic trance. [ATTACH=full]1170354[/ATTACH][B]Valerian I[/B], AD 253-260, AR Antoninianus, Rome mint, 1st emission, AD 253 [B] Obv: [/B]IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right [B]Rev: [/B]APOLINI PROPVG, Apollo standing right, drawing bow [B]Ref:[/B] RIC V [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.5.val_i.74']74[/URL][/QUOTE]
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