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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8207055, member: 99456&quot;]Hi Al - great coins of Valerian, I like the composition of your Octassarian from Corycus and the colorful highlights.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll share a coin of the King who became &quot;King of Kings of Iranians and non-Iranians&quot; after doing a good job a crushing the Romans - first defeating Gordianus, and humbling Philip as a tributary and then capturing Valerian.&nbsp; Shapur&#039;s account of events is an interesting read:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><i>&quot;And when I first became established in the land, Gordian Caesar drew together an army from all the land of Rome, Gothia, and Germany; and to Asurestan (=Babylonia) he came against Iran and [against] me, and at the boundary of Asurestan at Mishik there was a great face-to-face battle. Gordian Caesar was killed, and the army of the Romans was destroyed, and the Romans made Philip Caesar.&nbsp; And Philip Caesar came to me for supplication, and for their souls gave 500,000 dinars in blood money to me, and he was established as a tributary.&quot;</i></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><i>[skip]</i></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><i>&quot;And on this side of Harran and Urha there was a great battle with Valerian Caesar, and Valerian Caesar was captured by [my] own hand, and the rest, the praetorian prefects and the senators and the officers who were the leaders of this army, were all captured and led into Persia.&quot;</i></font></p><p>-Shapur I, <a href="http://parthiansources.com/texts/skz/skz-translation/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://parthiansources.com/texts/skz/skz-translation/" rel="nofollow">SKZ</a></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>regarding the end of Valerian - here&#039;s Lactantius&#039; version:</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="4">&quot;Valerian lived for a considerable time under the well-merited insults of his conqueror; so that the Roman name remained long the scoff and derision of the barbarians: and this also was added to the severity of his punishment, that although he had an emperor for his son, he found no one to revenge his captivity and most abject and servile state; neither indeed was he ever demanded back. Afterward, when he had finished this shameful life under so great dishonour, he was flayed, and his skin, stripped from the flesh, was dyed with vermilion, and placed in the temple of the gods of the barbarians...&quot;</font></p><p><font size="4">-<a href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0705.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0705.htm" rel="nofollow">Lactantius, Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died, Ch. 5</a></font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>The mistreatment of Valerian may have been exaggerated by the Romans.</p><p><b><b><br /></b></b></p><p><b><b>[ATTACH=full]1438818[/ATTACH]</b></b></p><p><b><b>&nbsp;<b>ŠĀPUR I</b> (Shapur)</b> I &quot;the Great&quot;</b>, AD 240-272. AR drachm</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Bust of Shapur right, wearing diadem and mural crown with with <i>korymbos</i> and earflaps</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Fire altar flanked by two attendants (probably both the king as attendant of the fire), each wearing diadem and mural crowns.</p><p><b>Ref:</b> SNS type IIc/1a, style E, Group a</p><p><b>Size: </b>23.9-24.2mm 4.15g[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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