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Salonina
Augusta
AD 254 - 268

Billon Antoninianus
Rome mint AD 260-268

Coins Catalog ID: 8026

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Sales Description
Obverse: SALONINA AVG - Diademed bust right, draped and on a crescent
Reverse: VENVS GENETRIX - Venus standing left, holding apple and sceptre, Cupid at her feet.
Mint marks: 
exergue - VI
References: 
RIC, vol. V i, p. 194, 30
Cohen 121

Salonina - Julia Cornelia Salonina Crysogone: Wife of Gallienus; Mother of Valerian II and Saloninus.

Mints: Asia, locality uncertain, Lugdunum, Mediolanum, Rome.

Biography: Cornelia Salonina, known also as Chrysogone, 'begotten of gold,' was the wife of the Emperor Gallienus (253-268). She was murdered with him at the siege of Mediolanum while Gallienus attempted to suppress the revolt of Aureolus. Like Gallienus, she had a taste for philosophy, especially for Plotinus, and together with her husband proposed the creation of a city of philosophers near Rome. Salonina's sons of Gallienus, Valerian II and Saloninus, were appointed by their grandfarther Valerian I co-emperors of Gallienus while he ruled, but died before their parents.

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