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Rare Salonina from Alexandria Troas

319, Lot: 219. Estimate $200.
Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TROAS, Alexandria Troas. Salonina. Augusta, AD 254-268. Æ As (19mm, 4.02 g, 6h). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing facing, head right, on head and neck of bull left. Bellinger – (but same obv. die as A463); SNG Copenhagen –. Near EF, dark brown patina. Rare ruler for mint.


Bellinger knew of four types and a total of eleven coins for Salonina from Alexandria Troas, which was a prolific mint during the reign of Valerian and Gallienus. Only one coin of Salonina from this mint is on CoinArchives (CNG e212, lot 177), a Marsyas type from the same obverse die as the current coin.