Live auction - brm_656986 - SALONINA Antoninien
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| Estimate : | 90 € |
| Price : | 40 € |
| Maximum bid : | 40 € |
| End of the sale : | 14 May 2024 14:10:04 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 256-258
Mint name / Town : Viminacium
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,88 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli buste de Salonine. Usure plus importante au revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du trésor de Guercheville
Obverse
Obverse legend : CORN 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 : “Cornelia Salonina Augusta”, (Cornelia Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IVNO REGINA.
Reverse description : Junon voilée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre court transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iuno Regina”, (Junon reine).
Commentary
Type particulier pour l’atelier de Viminacium qui semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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