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| Estimate : | 65 € |
| Price : | 36 € |
| Maximum bid : | 36 € |
| End of the sale : | 25 May 2015 15:33:30 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 259-260
Mint name / Town : Atelier secondaire d’Orient (Samosate)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 150 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,30 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait inhabituel de Salonine. Joli revers. 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 : ROMAE AETER-NAE.
Reverse description : Rome assise à gauche sur un bouclier, tenant une lance de la main gauche et présentant une Victoire à Gallien debout à droite ; dans le champ, couronne pointée.
Reverse translation : “Romae Aeternae”, (A la Rome éternelle).
Commentary
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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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