v13_0726 - SALONINA Antoninien
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 45.73 €
Estimate : 91.47 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 45.73 €
Estimate : 91.47 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 258
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 150 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,28 g.
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan un peu court et légèrement taché avec une patine grise. Beau portrait
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : SALONINA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de Salonine à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant posé sur un croissant (L15).
Obverse translation : “Salonina Augusta”, (Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IVNO REGINA.
Reverse description : Junon voilée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Juno Regina”, (Junon reine).
Historical background
SALONINA
(+268)
Wife of Gallienus, mother of Valerian II and Saloninus - Augusta
Salonine, the wife of Gallien, seems to receive the title of augusta in 253, when her husband is associated with power by Valerian I. She loses at least two of her children, young Valérien and Salonin. She is murdered at the same time as her husband. Salonina is said to have had Christian sympathies.
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