GALERIUS Emperor as CAESAR / GENIUS 297 - 298 AD. / Æ Coin + COA Scarce GGcoins

Description

Emperor  GALERIUS
"as Caesar
”
Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus
Roman Caesar Reign:
293 - 305 AD.
( AE )
Size: (29.mm) / Weight: (12.gm)
Nice DK Green Patina
Struck; 297-298 AD. when he was a Caesar...
Description:
A Very Nice
Large Roman AE
Follis struck in the time of
Roman Emperor GALERIUS
...
Obverse:  GAL VAL MAXIMIANVS NOB CAES,
Laureate Galerius Bust facing right...
Reverse:
GENIO POPV-L-I ROMANI,
Genius standing left,
holding patera and cornucopiae...
HTS in exergue...
Ref:  RIC VI 20b,S  Heraclea
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Galerius,
History:
Galerius, Roman emperor from 305 to 311, notorious for his persecution of Christians.
Galerius was born of humble parentage and had a distinguished military career.
On March 1, 293, he was nominated as caesar by the emperor Diocletian, who governed the
Eastern part of the empire. Galerius divorced his wife and married Diocletian’s daughter, Valeria.
After ruling from Egypt from 293 to 295, Galerius assumed command of defensive operations
against the Sāsānians in 297. After being defeated, he then won a decisive victory that increased
his influence with Diocletian. Galerius next proceeded to the Balkans and won numerous victories
in the region.
A staunch pagan, he persuaded the emperor to initiate the persecution of the Christians at
Nicomedia in 303.
When Diocletian abdicated on May 1, 305, Galerius became augustus (senior emperor) of the East,
ruling the Balkans and Anatolia. Technically he was subordinate to the Western ruler, Constantius
Chlorus.
But since Galerius had arranged the appointment of two of his favourites, Maximinus (his nephew)
and Flavius Valerius Severus, to be caesars in both East and West, he was in effect the supreme ruler.
When Constantius Chlorus died in 306, Galerius insisted that Severus govern the West as augustus,
but he grudgingly conceded the subordinate title of caesar to Chlorus’s son, Constantine, who was
(correctly) suspected of Christian sympathies. Galerius’s supremacy was, however, short-lived.
Severus was soon overthrown (306) and killed by Maxentius (son of the former emperor Maximian).
Galerius invaded Italy but was forced to retreat. In 308 he induced Diocletian and Maximian to meet
him at Carnuntum on the Danube and to declare Maxentius a usurper. On November 11, Galerius
proclaimed as augustus of the West his friend Licinius, who had effective control only in the region
of the Danube.
A ruthless ruler, Galerius imposed the poll tax on the urban population and maintained the
persecution of the Christians. In the winter of 310–311, however, he became incapacitated with a
painful disease. Fearing, perhaps, that his illness was the vengeance of the Christian God,
he issued on April 30, 311, an edict grudgingly granting toleration. Shortly afterward he died.
He was succeeded by his nephew Maximinus Daia.
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