Salonina Empress Wife of Gallienus AD 254-268 Double Denarius/BEARDED GOAT NGC.1

ROMAN EMPIRE



Salonina - Roman Empress Wife of Gallienus

AD 254-268



BI DOUBLE DENARIUS



GRADED NGC



Obverse: diademed, draped bust

right on crescent



Reverse: Bearded goat standing left;



Julia Cornelia Salonina (d. 268, Mediolanum) was an Augusta ,
wife of Roman Emperor Gallienus and mother of Valerian II ,

Saloninus , and Marinianus .

Julia Cornelia Salonina's origin is unknown. According to a
modern theory, she

was born of Greek origin in Bithynia , then part of the province
of Bithynia et

Pontus , Asia Minor . However, there exists some scepticism on
that. She was

married to Gallienus about ten years before his accession to the
throne. When

her husband became joint-emperor with his father Valerian in
253, Cornelia

Salonina was named Augusta.

Cornelia was the mother of three princes, Valerian II ,
Saloninus and Marinianus

. Her fate , a fter the murder of Gallienus, during the siege of
Mediolanum in

268, is unknown. It is likely that either her life was spared or
the she was

executed together with other members of her family, at the
orders of the Senate

of Rome.

Her name is reported on coins with Latin legend as Cornelia
Salonina; however,

from the Greek coinage come the names Iulia Cornelia Salonina,
Publia Licinia

Cornelia Salonina, and Salonina Chrysogona (attribute that means
"begotten of

gold").