brm_283223 - SALONINA Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 35.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 35.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 257-258
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,93 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large. Joli revers de frappe vigoureuse, mais frappe molle au droit. 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 un croissant (L15).
Obverse translation : “Salonina Augusta”, (Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VENVS GENETRIX/ -|VI.
Reverse description : Vénus debout de face tournée à gauche, tenant une pomme (?) de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, Cupidon debout à gauche tourné à droite.
Reverse translation : “Venus Genetrix”, (Vénus génitrice).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
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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