Subject: Re: Today's Scans from the dungeon.. ha ha ha
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:53:35 EDT
From: VGarn80584@aol.com
To: dave.surber@wildwinds.com

In a message dated 6/6/01 5:31:13 PM Central Daylight Time,
dave.surber@wildwinds.com writes:

<<
   Got 'em, the RIC 53 is up now, but I'm not sure what to call the
Valerian;
I haven't even figured
 out what the reverse legend is!  Can you read that?

   Thanks! >>

Dave:

Thanks buddy. Here's the scoop on the Valerian I. Antoninianus of Viminacium
Mint 254 ad RIC 220 (c) RESTITVT GENER HVMANI.

Valerian is another project of mine as Gordian will at some point be
finished
for my income level to acquire for it. Those quinarii are in the thousands
of
bucks and beyond my means. So I also will be doing Philip, Trajan Decius,
Trebonianus Gallus, Volusian, Valerian, Aurelian and lastly Tacitus.

Like the Greek definition of HERO, or heroic, the essence of that quality is
not the success but the act of trying to achieve great things. All of these
people were heroes in that light and the Imperial restoration completed by
Diocletian was not answer these guys were searching for but it was a heroic
age and now lost to history. Propagandists rewrote the events in the fourth
and fifth centuries and the facts and the commonality of these fellows. In
fact the need to change history was so great in fourth century antiquity,
that the record of events in this period was destroyed by them. Just as the
temples of Egypt were tore apart brick by brick and hieroglyphs become a
lost
language, the simplest of documents where removed from history. That's why
what happened here is special, and in fact...heroic.

Thanks buddy

Velarian

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