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Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Empress Salonina

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Date: 267-268
Medium: Billon
Culture: Alexandria
Department: Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 141508

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The front (obverse) of this coin portrays a draped bust of the empress Salonina, facing right. The back (reverse) depicts an eaglewith a wreath in its beak and its wings open behind. Salonina was married to the Roman emperor Gallienus, who reigned jointly with his father, Valerian, from 253-260, and then as sole emperor to 268. The date this coin was struck is indicated in the reverse inscription "LIE ", which means the fifteenth year of Gallienus's reign, or 267-268 CE.

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Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Provenance: Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932) and Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859-1937), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1938.