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Contributor: Compagnie Générale de Bourse
Issuer: SALONINA, wife of Gallienus, AD 253-268. Base Antoninianus, minted in Lgdunum (Lyons) ( 20 mm., 4.48 g.).
Obverse: SALONINA AVG, her diademed bust, facing right, draped and on crescent.
Reverse: FELICITAS PVBLICA, Felicitas seated left, holding caduceus and cornucopiae.
Reference: RIC 6; C.50; HCC 4.22; E 97; Eauze 1520.
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.