brm_202210 - SALONINA Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 65.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 65.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 266-267
Mint name / Town : Milan
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,16 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Superbe portrait parfaitement venu à la frappe. Revers un peu mou. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : 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 : “Salonina Augusta”, (Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VENVS - VICT/ -|P.
Reverse description : Vénus debout de face tournée à gauche, tenant une pomme de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, Cupidon debout à gauche tourné à droite.
Reverse translation : “Venus Victrix”, (Vénus victorieuse).
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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