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SALVS.--Head of the goddess of health within a collar or chain (torques).--On a Roman Republic denarius of the a Junia family moneyer, the obverse of which is Victory in a biga, around which D. SILANVS L. F., who was perhaps one fot he the descendants of C. Junius Bublcus, consul v.c. 443, by whom the temple of Salus was built at Rome, and who designed this coin to restore the memory of the piety of his ancestors.--See Torques.
SALVS.--The goddess sitting, holds a patera in her right hand.--On common gold and silver of Nero. This tyrant made frequent vows for his own health, and also instituted certamina on that account. Indeed, Tacitus records that, for his escape from a plot laid against him in the year of Rome 818, he erected a temple to Salus. But so little did he care about the health of others, that he made the same conspiracy against his life a pretext for sacrificing hundreds to his revenge.