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Coin Portraying Empress Salonina
Roman; minted in Alexandria, EgyptLinkedCulture matchlcp-7c7847fdba74
- Date
- 253-268
- Medium
- Billon
- Culture
- Roman Empire
- Department
- Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 101122
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The front (obverse) of this coin portrays Salonina, facing right, draped and diademed. The back (reverse) depicts the goddess Tyche standing left wearing kalathos (hat shaped like a basket) on head, palm behind, holding rudder and cornucopiae. 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 " LI ∆ ", which means the fourteenth year of Gallienus's reign, or 266-267 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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