bpv_258562 - SALONINA Tétradrachme
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Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an 11
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,0 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait. Joli revers de haut relief. Patine marron foncé
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Obverse
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de Salonine à droite vu de trois quarts (L5).
Obverse legend : KORNHLIA SALwNEINA SEB, (Kornhlia Salwneina Sebasth)
Obverse translation : (Cornélia Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LIA.
Reverse description : Homonoia (Concordia) la Concorde, drapée assise à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant une double corne d’abondance.
Reverse translation : (An 11).
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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