bpv_931893 - SALONINA Unité
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Type : Unité
Date: 254-268
Mint name / Town : Nicomédie, Bithynie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,68 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Joli buste. Revers agréable. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de Salonine à droite.
Obverse legend : KORH SALWEINA .
Obverse translation : (Cornélia Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse description : Tyche debout à gauche tenant un gouvernail et une corne d’abondance.
Reverse legend : TRIS NEWKORWN NIKOMHDEWN.
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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