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Contributor: Compagnie Générale de Bourse.
Issuer: SALONINA, wife of Gallienus, AD 253-268. Base AR Antoninianus, minted at Lugdunum (Lyons) (20 mm., 3.34 g.).
Obverse: SALONINA AVG, her diademed and draped bust, facing right, on crescent.
Reverse: DEAE SEGETIAE, coiffed statue of goddess in a tetrastyle temple, hands raised.
Reference: RIC 5 (joint reign); C 36; E 96; Eauze 1518; Hill Monuments, p. 37/52; RC 3037.
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.