brm_946514 - SALONINA Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 265-266
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 30 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,30 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, épais, centré. Usure régulière. Joli buste. 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 Impératrice).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FECVNDITAS AVG.
Reverse description : Fecunditas (La Fécondité) debout à gauche, tenant une corne d'abondance de la main gauche et tendant la main droite à un enfant qui est placé devant elle.
Reverse translation : “Fecunditas Augustæ”, (La Fécondité de l’augusta).
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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