185, Lot: 327. Estimate $100. Sold for $92. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. AR Antoninianus (23mm, 2.89 g, 6h). Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne) mint. 2nd emission, AD 258-259. Draped bust right, wearing stephane, set on crescent / Segetia standing facing within tetrastyle temple, both hands raised. RIC V 5; MIR 36, 902c; RSC 36. VF.
The reverse of this type refers to the temple which Salonina had erected in honor of the goddess Segetia, the deity presiding over harvests when sprung from the soil.