brm_1189179 - SALONINA Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 257
Mint name / Town : Atelier secondaire d’Orient (Samosate)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 200 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,59 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée sur un flan large. Très joli revers. Patine grise
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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”, (Cornélia Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORDIA AVGG.
Reverse description : Gallien et Salonine se donnant la main. Gallien est debout à gauche tourné à droite et Salonine debout à droite tournée à gauche ; au milieu, au-dessus, une couronne.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Augustorum”, (La Concorde des augustes).
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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