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Contributor: Walter C. Holt.
Issuer: MARINIANA, wife of Valerian I, AD 253-260. AE Dupondius
Obverse: Veiled and draped bust of Mariniana right, DIVAE MARINIANAE
Reverse: Peacock standing facing, head turned right, tail in splendour, CONSECRATIO S. C.
Reference: RIC 11; Sear 2933, struck in 256.
Comments: For more information, read the "Valerian" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Mariniana see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.