The coin features the bust of Valerian II — the grandson of Roman emperor Valerian, who named his son co-emperor and his teenage grandson caesar. However, Valerian II wasn't long for this world ...

Valerian was captured during the Battle of Edessa in 260 AD, making him the only Roman emperor to be taken captive. Not only that, but some sources claim that he was humiliated in captivity by the ...

The catastrophic defeat and capture in 260 of Emperor Valerian by the Persians thrust Roman rule into even greater disarray. In Europe the rebel Gallic empire started to break away from Rome.

ROME – Tradition holds that during the anti-Christian persecution of Roman Emperor Valerian in 258, Saint Lawrence, when given three days to round up the church’s riches before being executed ...