E-auction 606-579901 - SALONINUS Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 259-260
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,53 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, ovale, centré. Joli buste. Traces de circulation plus importantes au revers. Patine grise
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du trésor de Guercheville
Obverse
Obverse legend : SALON VALERIANVS CAES.
Obverse description : Buste radié et drapé de Salonin à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A21).
Obverse translation : “Saloninus Valerianus Cæsar”, (Salonin Valérien césar).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIETAS AVG.
Reverse description : Instruments pontificaux : bâton d’augure “lituus”, couteau à sacrifice, vase à sacrifice, simpulum et aspersoir.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augusti”, (La Piété de l’auguste).
Historical background
SALONINUS
(259-06/260)
Caesar
Salonin was raised to the cesarat after the death of his brother, Valérien II. Sent to Gaul, under the protection of Postumus then simple general, he was proclaimed august after the capture of Valerian I in June or July 260. Postumus, proclaimed august in his turn, besieged Salonin and had him put to death.
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