Roman Salonina Empress Wife of Gallienus AD 254-268 Double Denarius Venus NGC(0)

ROMAN EMPIRE

Salonina - Roman Empress Wife of Gallienus
AD 254-268

BI DOUBLE DENARIUS

GRADED NGC

 Obverse:  diademed, draped bust
right on crescent

Reverse: Venus seated left, holding sceptre and reaching for child before her.

Venus Felix ("Lucky Venus"), her cult tile
at her temple on the Esquiline Hill and at Hadrian 's Venus Felix et Roma
Aeterna on the Via Sacra . This epithet is also used for a specific sculpture at
the Vatican Museums .

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").

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