Description: Pamphylia, Sillyon, Saloninus (255 - 259 AD). AV K ΠO ΛIK CAΛΩN O VAΛEPIANOC; laureate and draped bust right, I before / CIΛΛVEΩN; Tyche standing left, holding rudder and cornucopiae.

Diameter: AE33 mm

Weight: 26,14 g

Grade: aVF/gF

Attribution: not in known references, cf. Mionnet Supp. 7, 270 (obverse), cf. BMC 22 (Salonina, reverse)

Commentary: very rare; heavy; brown and bronze surfaces with some minor encrustation, good for type

History: Saloninus was murdered by Roman troops on the Rhine frontier in Colonia Agrippina, his brother Valerian two years earlier in Illyria - both young boys being victims to the failed policy of dynastic representation in the troubled provinces.

Article Number: 016-02-03-41652