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Contributor: Compagnie Générale de Bourse
Issuer: SALONINA, wife of Gallienus, AD 253-268. Provincial coin: AE Tetradrachm, minted in Alexandria, Egypt (22.5 mm., 10.11 g.).
Obverse: KORNHLIA SALWNEINA SEB, her diademed and draped bust, facing right.
Reverse: ID L (year 14), eagle standing left with wreath in its beak, palm fron behind.
Reference: BMC 16.2279; Dattari 5345; Cop 818; Milne 4153; Curtis 1641.
Comments: For more information, read the "Gallienus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Salonina see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.