Augusta Salonina

I have these two Saloninas:




CORNELIA SALONINA AVG / PUDICITIA S C
Sestertius, Rome ca. 262
28 mm, 11,66 gr
RIC: -, C: -, BRMC: -, Sear: -, ERIC II: -, Göbl: -





SALONINA AVG / VESTA
Antoninianus, Cologne ca. 254
Göbl 900 c

 

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Great thread. It somehow got past me.
I'm also working on an Empress sub.

Here's my Nancy look alike,

 

Carol King comes to my mind from the coin so much that i'm listening to her right now...

 

Hmm, she looks a little bit more like Dee Snider

 

o the humanity....

 

Well, it's reasonably complete but struck with a worn reverse die:

Cornelia Salonina, AD 253-268
Roman AE Antoninianus, 3.25 g; 21.5 mm
Mediolanum (Milan) mint, AD 260-268
Obv: SALONINA AVG, diademed and draped bust right, on crescent
Rev: AVG IN PACE, Salonina seated left, holding olive branch and transverse scepter; S in exergue
Refs: RIC 58 (sole reign); Cohen 17; RCV 10626; Göbl 1305r; Hunter 25.

But I know what you mean; most of them are pretty ragged, like this one (with a different obverse legend and RIC listing):


Cornelia Salonina, AD 253-268
Roman AE Antoninianus, 2.37 gm; 20.2 mm
Mediolanum (Milan) mint, AD 262-263
Obv: CORN SALONINA AVG, diademed and draped bust right, on crescent
Rev: AVG IN PACE, Salonina seated left, holding olive branch and transverse scepter; (exergue off flan).
Refs: RIC 57 (sole reign); Cohen 18; RCV 10626 var. (obv legend).

 

@dougsmit wrote about the possible Christian connection to the AVG IN PACE type of Salonina. I, too, was interested in the type for that reason.

Salonina, wife of Gallienus (253-268)
Base silver. 21 mm. 3.79 grams.
SALONINA AVG
Her bust right, diademed and resting on crescent
AVG IN PACE
Pax (Peace) seated left holding out olive branch in right and holding long transverse scepter
MS, mintmark of Mediolanum (Milan) below.
RIC Salonina 58.


The "M" in the mintmark is one of the very first mint indications, standing for "Mediolanum." When all coins were struck at Rome, there was no need to distinguish mints.
Long ago this type was considered possibly Christian, merely because of the legend, but now is not generally regarded as referencing Christianity.

 

i wonder what the crescent means... does anyone know?

 

On issues of women--because they don't wear the radiate crown--it means a double denomination, i.e. an Antoninianus.

Note that men have the radiate crown (identified with the sun) and women have the moon on their shoulders (identified with the moon).

This is long-standing iconography. See this provincial of Augustus and Livia from Hispalis. Note the sun above Augustus and the crescent moon above Livia.

 

o ok thanks RC.

 

I think Gallienus was interested in neoplatonism, which has a philosophical connection to Christianity and could even be related to the IN PACE reverse type. So the traditional view might not be completely wrong.

I just have Juno.