brm_226220 - SALONINA Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 257-259
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,72 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et ovale. Joli portrait. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
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 : VENVS VIC-TRIX.
Reverse description : Venus debout à droite, de dos, nue jusqu’à la ceinture, tenant une palme au dessus d’une colonne de la main gauche et une pomme de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Venus Victrix”, (Vénus victorieuse).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec son argenture superficielle. Exceptionnelle représentation de Vénus !!!.
Lightweight. With its superficial silvering. Exceptional representation of Venus!!!
Lightweight. With its superficial silvering. Exceptional representation of Venus!!!
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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