I now have a Husband and Wife! Meet Gallienus Gallienus, Antoninianus, Rome, 21mm, 3.62g. Obv: GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head right Rev: ABVNDANTIA AVG, Abundantia standing right, emptying a cornucopiae. B in left field. RIC V-2 157; RSC 5a; Cunetio 1159; Goebl 660q1. And his wife, whom most of you have already met! Salonina AR Antoninianus. Rome mint, 257-258 AD. SALONINA AVG, draped bust right on crescent / IVNO REGINA, Juno standing left holding patera and sceptre. RSC 60; Sear 10640. Even better, 2,500 messages! Thanks for Reading!
Everyone needs a Gallienus or twenty. Recent addition, from a mint I previously was lacking: GALLIENUS Billon Antoninianus. 3.35g, 20.6mm. Viminacium mint, issue 3c, circa AD 253-260. MIR 36, 840n; RIC V (joint reign) 382 (Milan); Cunetio –. O: IMP GALLIENVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right. R: GERMANICVS MAXIMVS, trophy of arms, with seated captive on either side. Ex N. M. McQ. Holmes Collection (bought from Baldwin's, 1993) And my favorite Salonina: SALONINA Billon Antoninianus. 2.6g, 24.5mm. Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne) mint, AD 258-259. RIC 5; Göbl 902c; RSC 36. O: SALONINA AVG, diademed and draped bust right, resting on a crescent. R: DEAE SEGETIAE, Segetia standing facing within tetrastyle temple, both hands raised.
Nice ones! They make a nice little dynasty that is one of the easier ones to complete* without breaking the banks Grandpa Valerian Grandma Mariniana Daddy Gallienus Ma Salonina And the brothers Valerian II And Saloninus And don't forget uncle Shapur! He's a taxidermist by trade, but I hear his signature cocktail is to die for! Jokes aside, of the six members of the family, only Mariniana is scarce and routinely commands more than $100 for modest examples. *Note about "completion" - there was apparently a third child who died young and was honored posthumously on coinage - but only a single example is known to have survived to the present!
Sestertii of the last dynasty that issued this denomination: You´ll HAVE TO break the bank if you want a decent Sestertius of Valerian II or one in any state of Saloninus so I am lacking those for now...
Always nice to have bride and bridegroom together ! Gallienus, Sestertius - Rome mint, AD 253-255 IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVG, Laureate and draped and cuirassed bust of Gallienus right CONCORDIA EXERCIT, Concordia standing left, holding double cornucopia and patera. 18.5 gr Ref : RIC # 209, Göbl # 15dd, Cohen #132, RCV #10467 Salonina, Sestertius - Rome mint, AD 256-260 CORNELIA SALONINA AVG, Diademed and draped bust of Salonina right IVNO REGINA, Juno standing left, with patera and sceptre, SC in field 20.05 gr Ref : RIC # 46, RCV #10679, Cohen #62 Q
SALONINA, Wife of Gallienus Obv: CORN.SALONINA.AVG: Diademed bust draped right, on crescent. Rev: CONCORDIA.AVGG: Gallienus and Salonina clasping hands. (refers to her elevation as Augusta, in 254 A.D.) RICIV #63.
