ROMAN.Galeria Valeria. Augusta, AD 293(?)-311 BI Nummus / Venus holding Apple(1)

ROMAN EMPIRE

Galeria Valeria. Augusta, AD 293(?)-311 

BI Nummus 

Roman Age of Chaos

CERTIFIED BY NGC 

Obverse: Draped bust right, wearing stephane

Reverse:  Venus standing left, holding
up apple and raising drapery over shoulder.

Galeria Valeria (died 315) was the daughter
of Roman Emperor Diocletian and wife of his co-emperor Galerius.

Born as Valeria to Diocletian and Prisca,
she married Galerius in 293, when her father elevated him to the position of
Caesar. This marriage was clearly organized to strengthen the bonds between the
two emperors.



Valeria was raised to the title of Augusta and Mater Castrorum in November 308.
Since Galerius fathered no child with her, Valeria adopted her husband's
illegitimate son, Candidianus, as her own. In her honor, Galerius renamed the
province of Upper Pannonia Valeria, which he had improved by draining marshes
and removing forests.



When Galerius died, in 311, Licinius was entrusted with the care of Valeria and
her mother Prisca. The two women, however, fled from Licinius to Maximinus Daia,
whose daughter was betrothed to Candidianus. After a short time, Valeria refused
the marriage proposal of Maximinus, who arrested and confined her in Syria and
confiscated her properties. At the death of Maximinus, Licinius ordered the
death of both women. Valeria and Prisca fled, hiding for a year, until they were
recognized by residents in Thessaloniki. She and her mother were captured by
Licinius' soldiers, beheaded in the central square of the city, and their bodies
thrown in the sea.

Valeria was sympathetic towards Christians, while Galerius persecuted them. She
was canonized as a Christian saint with her mother.

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