brm_724416 - SALONINA Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 257-258
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,92 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, centré. Joli buste. Usure régulière. Patine grise
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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 : IVNO VI-CTRIX.
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 : “Iuno Victrix”, (Junon vainqueur).
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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