Coin Portraying Empress Salonina

Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

264-265

Roman, minted in Alexandria, Egypt

The front (obverse) of this coin portrays the empress Salonina, facing right and crowned with a diadem.

On the back (reverse) Eirene (personification of peace and the daughter of Zeus and Themis) stands left holding an olive branch. A palm branch appears in the field in front.

Salonina was married to the Roman emperor Gallienus, who reigned jointly with his father, Valerian, from 253-260, then as sole emperor to 268. The date this coin was struck is indicated in the reverse inscription “LIB “, which means the twelfth year of Gallienus’s reign, or 264-265 CE.

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Department: Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium

Artist: Ancient Roman
Title: Coin Portraying Empress Salonina
Place: Roman Empire (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 264 CE–265 CE
Medium: Billon
Inscriptions: Obverse: KOΡNHΛIA CAΛWNEINA CEB Reverse: LIB
Dimensions: Diam.: 2.2 cm (7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Robert L. Grover
Reference Number: 1983.1086
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Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report: 1983-84 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 47.

Robert L. Grover (1910-1998), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1983.

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