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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3265916, member: 56859&quot;]Valerian&#039;s death ranks pretty high on the lurid scale.&nbsp; Depending on who you read, upon capture by Shapur I, Valerian was:</p><p><br /></p><p>A. Killed by Shapur; stuffed with straw and kept as a trophy</p><p>B. Forced to perform degrading services, such as being his Shapur&#039;s footstool, eventually killed</p><p>C. Same as B, but allowed to &quot;retire&quot; in relative comfort, dying eventually of natural causes</p><p>D. Killed by Shapur by being forced to drink molten gold (Game of Thrones, anyone?)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_d70aeb87baa44bd3b226debe33b7acc6.jpg_srb_p_1000_510_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>PHOENICIA, Tyre</b></p><p>Valerian I (CE 253-260)</p><p>Æ28.5 mm, 12.2 gm</p><p>Obv: IMP CP LIC VALERIANVS AVG; radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right Rev: 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: Rouvier 2501; BMC 470; cf Price &amp; Trell 748[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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