303, Lot: 371. Estimate $100. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. AR Antoninianus (21mm, 2.85 g, 12h). Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne) mint. 2nd emission, AD 258-259. Draped bust right, wearing stephane and set on crescent / DEAE SE-GE-TIAE, Segetia, orans, standing facing within tetrastyle temple. RIC V (joint reign) 5; MIR 36, 902c; RSC 36. VF, toned.

From the Chiltern Collection.

Segetia presided over crops after they had appeared above ground. Presumably, Salonina was associated with an erection of a temple to the rural deity.