brm_284499 - SALONINA Antoninien
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 70.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 70.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 254
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,21 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale. Très beau portrait inhabituel. Jolie patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CORN 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 : “Cornelia Salonina Augusta”, (Cornelia Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORDIA AVGG.
Reverse description : Concordia (La Concorde) assise à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une double corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Augustorum”, (La Concorde des augustes).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Portrait inhabituel. Type rare pour Salonine !.
Heavyweight. Unusual portrait. Rare type for Salonina!
Heavyweight. Unusual portrait. Rare type for Salonina!
Historical background
SALONINA
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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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