Soilder draggin captive by his hair!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Soldier Dragging Captive by the Hair

            (Majority of Information was found through Dirty Dozen)

• Valentinian I
• mint of Siscia
• Obverse: DN VALENTINI - ANVS PF AVG draped and cuirassed bust right with pearl diadem
• DN = Dominus Noster (Our Lord)
• PF = Pius Felix (Pious and Happy in a sense of 'blessed' more than 'jolly')
• AVG = Augustus (Emperor) Note the break in the legend honors his position of a senior Augustus.
• The drapery on the bust is secured by a large clasp on the shoulder below which we see a trace of the shoulder armor of the cuirass.                                                                     
• Reverse: GLORIA RO - MANORVM (Glory of the Romans) around edge; BSISCV mintmark in exergue; Q A and a fancy 'k' symbol in field - soldier holding Labarum dragging captive by hair
• 2cm, 1.76 gm
• Bronze
• 337- 350 AD

 

Valentinian was on of Rome’s last Great War emperors.  All emperors are faced with a challenge and Valentinians was to hold together an empire that had experienced sixty years of internal unrest, something which was of majorly important.  He also had to deal with regions seeming to become disconnected; these were Gaul, Britain and Africa.  Flavius Valentinianus was born in A.D. 321 at Cibalis in southern Pannonia.  He started as a fighter and wrestler in his fathers footsteps but was soon called to lead the armies of Rome.  From there he became emperor. One of the first problems that faced Valentinian was an outbreak of hostilities in Gaul with the Alamanni, a loose confederation of Germanic-speaking peoples living beyond the Rhine.  The Alamanni were upset because Valentinian would not supply them with the level of tribute that previous emperors had paid them.  He fixed this problem by sending Rome’s fist of War.  Valentinian deliberately polarized Roman society, subordinating the civilian population to the military. The military order took over the old prestige of the senatorial nobility. The imperial court, which was becoming more and more of a military court, became a vehicle for social mobility.  These officials did not always perform their job well and, as a result, the provincial populations became increasingly alienated from the imperial government. They were crushed under the increasing burden of taxation, and often the emperor, through his delegates, failed to provide the security for which the provincials' tribute was paying.  Overall Valentinian was a very strict Ruler who practically converted Rome into a militaristic nation, he was a great man. 

HE IS THE ULTIMATE EMPORER