Galeria Valeria

Valeria was the daughter of Diocletian. To legitimize Diocletian's new scheme of dividing the empire into two halves, he had his daughter marry Galerius and move to the Eastern headquarters. Her marriage to Galerius was apparently an unhappy one and when he died his successor, Maximinus, attempted to marry her to cement his own power. Because this was evidently another marriage of convenience she refused and he exiled her to a remote village. He too died soon after and was succeeded by Licinius who, in turn, still bore her ill will over her spurning Maximinus. He had sent for her to have her executed but she had already vanished months before. She was eventually captured in Thessalonica where it was discovered she was seeking passage back to Italy in search of her father. She and her sister were unceremoniously beheaded and dumped in a river ending her unhappy life.

AU Binio

RIC 33 (Serdica), Depeyrot 9/2 Binio Obv: GALVALERIAAVG - Diademed, draped bust right on crescent.
Rev: VENERIVICTRICI Exe: /(backwards Σ)/•SM•SD• - Venus standing left, holding apple and raising skirt. [The backwards Σ by Jupiter's feet is actually the Greek reversed Sigma which stood for 60, as in 60 Aurei to the Roman pound]. 308 (Serdica). $26,481 2/18/02.

AU Aureus

RIC 53 (Nicomedia), Depeyrot 13/1, C 1 Aureus Obv: GALVALERIAAVG - Diademed, draped bust right.
Rev: VENERIVICTRICI Exe: SMN - Venus standing left, holding apple and raising skirt. 308-310 (Nicomedia).

AE Follis

RIC 36 (Thessalonica) Follis Obv: GALVALERIAAVG - Diademed, draped bust right.
Rev: VENERIVICTRICI Exe: //•SM•TS• - Venus standing left, holding apple and raising skirt. 308-311 (Thessalonica).