v08_0417 - SALONINA Antoninien
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 259-260
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 250 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,90 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et complet / Joli 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 : (Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELICI-TAS PVBLICA.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) assise à gauche, tenant un caducée de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : (La Félicité publique).
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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