Egypt. Alexandria. Valerian II as Caesar, 253-255. Tetradrachm (Billon, 22.50 mm, 10.80 g) dated RY 5 (= 257-258) [Π ΛΙΚ ΚΟΡ ΟΥΑΛЄΡΙΑΝ]ΟϹ ΚΑΙϹ ϹЄΒ Draped and cuirassed bare bust of Valerian right. Rev. Personified Alexandria draped standing facing, head turned to left, holding bust of Serapis and drapery on the right hand and arm, scepter in the left hand, L Є (date) across fields. Geissen 2998. Dattari-Savio pl. 275, 5351 (this coin). BMC 2290. Milne 3981. Emmett 3763. Vogt II, 152. About Very Fine. Ex Giovanni Dattari Collection 5351. Ex Naville Numismatics Ltd. 37, 28.01.2018, lot 410. The dynastic propaganda of the imperial family has always been a feature of the Alexandrian coinage and this comes true in this tetradrachm, ex Dattari Collection, dedicated to the very young Caesar Publius Licinius Cornelius Valerianus, in the fifth year of his father Gallienus’reign (257-258 AD) with on the obverse a bare-headed bust. On the reverse is the deification of Alexandria with her attributes, destined to protect the “princeps juventutis”, yet doomed to die in the Illyrian, quite at the beginning of 258 AD.