E-auction 62-29011 - bpv_308337 - SALONINA Tétradrachme
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| Estimate : | 110 € |
| Price : | 21 € |
| Maximum bid : | 21 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 June 2014 16:25:00 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: an
15
Date: 267-268
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 20 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,79 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Salonine. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron foncé, légèrement granuleuse au droit
Catalogue references :
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 : LIE.
Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite, les ailes déployées, tenant une couronne dans son bec.
Reverse translation : (An 15).
Commentary
Poids léger. C’est la dernière année de frappe pour Salonine.
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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