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| Estimate : | 65 € |
| Price : | 26 € |
| Maximum bid : | 30 € |
| End of the sale : | 28 July 2014 15:45:00 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Antoninien
Date: 257-258
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,94 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince et bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait. Joli revers de style fin. Très belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets mordorés
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 - F-ELIX.
Reverse description : Vénus assise à gauche, le bras gauche appuyé sur le dossier de son siège tenant une pomme de la main droite ; Cupidon debout à gauche tourné à droite devant elle.
Reverse translation : “Venus Felix”, (Vénus heureuse).
Commentary
Poids léger ! Avec l’intégralité de son argenture.
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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