brm_312490 - SALONINA Antoninien
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Price : 80.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 258-259
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,51 g.
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire parfaitement centré sur un flan irrégulier. Superbe portrait malgré un petit plat sur la chevelure. Revers de toute beauté ! Patine grise aux reflets métalliques
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Obverse
Obverse legend : SALONI-NA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de Salonine à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, posé sur un croissant (L15).
Obverse translation : “Salonina Augusta”, (Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PVDICITIA/ -|-// VI.
Reverse description : Pudicitia (la Pudeur) voilée et drapée assise à gauche, tenant son voile de la main droite et un sceptre long transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pudicitia”, (La Pudeur).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle.
With its superficial silvering
With its superficial silvering
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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