brm_946498 - SALONINA Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 258-259
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,79 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Très beau buste de Salonine. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse legend : SALONINA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de Salonine à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, posé sur le croissant (L15).
Obverse translation : "Salonina Augusta", (Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : V-ES-TA/ -|-// Q.
Reverse description : Vesta drapée et voilée assise sur un trône à gauche tenant un patère de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Vesta”, (Vesta).
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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