brm_880034 - SALONINA Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 267
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,95 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, épais, centré. Joli buste, finement détaillé. Revers agréable. Patine foncée
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Obverse
Obverse legend : SALONINA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadèmé 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 : VENV-S AVG// PXV.
Reverse description : Vénus debout à gauche tenant un casque de la main droite et une haste transversale de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Venus Augustæ”, (Vénus de l'augusta).
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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