Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1071. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SALONINA, wife of Gallienus. Augusta, 254-268 AD. Æ Sestertius (20.70 gm, 6h). Rome mint. CORNELIA SALO-NINA AVG, diademed and draped bust right / [I]VNO REGINA, S C across field, Juno standing left, holding patera in extended right hand and long sceptre in left hand. RIC V 46 (Joint Reign); MIR 36, 228d1; Banti 11; Hunter 13 (Joint Reign); Cohen 62. EF, choice mottled brown patina, slightly double struck on a slightly irregular flan, minor hairline flan crack. Attractive portrait. ($1500)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 18 (29 March 2000), lot 683; Sternberg X (25-26 November 1980), lot 552.