E-auction 236-159728 - brm_238291 - SALONINA Antoninien
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| Estimate : | 75 € |
| Price : | 31 € |
| Maximum bid : | 37 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 October 2017 14:22:00 |
| bidders : | 8 bidders |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 259-260
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,12 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan mince, ovale et irrégulier, légèrement fendu au droit à 6 heures, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Revers bien venu à la frappe pour ce type. Jolie patine grise avec des reflets dorés, légèrement taché au revers
Catalogue references :
C.36 (1f.) - RIC.5 - E.96 - Eauze1518 - MAR.52 - Cunetio731 - MIR.36/902 c (119 ex.) - MRK.91 /9 - RCV.10631 (110$)
Obverse
Obverse legend : SALONI-NA 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 : DEAE SE-GETIAE.
Reverse description : Segetia, coiffée d'un nimbe radié debout de face, les bras tendus dans un temple tétrastyle à fronton triangulaire coupolé.
Reverse translation : “Deæ Segetiæ”, (À la Déesse Segetia).
Commentary
Poids extrêmement léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Buste avec la chevelure crantée.
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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