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Coin Portraying Empress Salonina
Roman, minted in Alexandria, EgyptLinkedCulture matchlcp-3eb78971a2c6
- Date
- 264-265
- Medium
- Billon
- Culture
- Roman Empire
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 101116
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The front (obverse) of this coin portrays the empress Salonina, facing right and crowned with a diadem. On the back (reverse) Eirene (personification of peace and the daughter of Zeus and Themis) stands left holding an olive branch. A palm branch appears in the field in front. Salonina was married to the Roman emperor Gallienus, who reigned jointly with his father, Valerian, from 253-260, then as sole emperor to 268. The date this coin was struck is indicated in the reverse inscription "LIB ", which means the twelfth year of Gallienus's reign, or 264-265 CE.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Robert L. Grover
- Provenance
- Robert L. Grover (1910-1998), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.
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- Object type
- AAT300037334
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