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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Salonina| > RA57189
Salonina, Augusta, 254 - c. September 268 A.D., Wife of Gallienus
|Salonina|, |Salonina,| |Augusta,| |254| |-| |c.| |September| |268| |A.D.,| |Wife| |of| |Gallienus|, In Roman mythology, Aequitas was the minor goddess of fair trade and honest merchants. Aequitas was also the personification of the virtues equity and fairness of the emperor (Aequitas Augusti). The scales, a natural emblem of equity, express righteousness. The cornucopia signifies the prosperity which results from Aequitas and Aequitas Augusti.
RA57189. Billon antoninianus, Göbl MIR 1648d, Hunter IV S34, RSC IV 4, RIC V-1 S87, SRCV III 10625, VF, bold full circle obverse strike on a broad flan, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 4.068g, maximum diameter 22.4mm, die axis 0o, 266 - 267 A.D.; obverse SALONINA AVG, draped bust right, wearing stephane, hair in horizontal ridges and in plait looped below ear up the back of head, bust resting on thin crescent; reverse AEQVITAS AVG (equity of the emperor), Aequitas standing half left, scales in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, crescent upper left, VIIC• (COS VII) in exergue; SOLD




  






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Huvelin, H. "L'atelier d'Antioche sous Claude II" in NAC XIX (1990), pp. 251-271.
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Van Heesch, J. "The last civic coinages and the religious policy of Maximinus Daza (AD 312)" in Numismatic Chronicle 1993, pp. 65 - 75, pl. 11.

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