Coin Portraying Empress Salonina

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Coin Portraying Empress Salonina

Roman, minted in Alexandria, EgyptLinkedCulture matchlcp-3eb78971a2c6

Date
266-267
Medium
Billon
Culture
Roman Empire
Department
Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
101123

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The front (obverse) of this coin portrays the empress Salonina, facing right and crowned with a diadem. On the back (reverse) Elpis, the goddess of hope, walks left holding a flower and raising the hem of her robe. A palm branch and a partial inscription are seen in the field behind her. 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 "LIΔ ", 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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AAT300037334

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