brm_946530 - SALONINA Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 256 - été 258
Date: 256-258
Mint name / Town : Atelier secondaire d’Orient (Samosate)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 200 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,65 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli buste. Usure régulière. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
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”, (Cornélia Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VESTA.
Reverse description : Vesta, voilée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant le palladium de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Vesta”, (Vesta).
Commentary
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Historical background
SALONINA
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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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