brm_1101028 - SALONINA Sesterce
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Type : Sesterce
Date: 257
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 18,78 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Sesterce agréable malgré l’usure, sur flan court et centré. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CORNELIA SALONINA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de Salonine à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (L5).
Obverse translation : “Cornelia Salonina Augusta”, (Cornélia Salonine augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IVNO REGINA/ S|C.
Reverse description : Junon drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iuno Regina”, (Junon reine).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
Heavy weight
Heavy weight
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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