v13_0733 - SALONINA Antoninien
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 76.22 €
Estimate : 152.45 €
Realised price : 76.22 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 142.54 €
Starting price : 76.22 €
Estimate : 152.45 €
Realised price : 76.22 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 142.54 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 263
Mint name / Town : Italie, Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 150 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,13 g.
Rarity : R2
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Style du portrait tout à fait particulier. Faiblesse de frappe au revers
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”, (Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VENV - F-ELIX, (SIC !).
Reverse description : Vénus drapée debout à droite, tenant un long sceptre vertical de la main droite et Cupidon de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Venus Felix”, (Vénus heureuse).
Commentary
Le seul exemplaire répertorié semble provenir du trésor de Gibraltar.
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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