SALONINUS son of GALLIENUS Cologne Ancient OLD Silver Roman Coin LITUUS i110070

Description: Item: i110070 Authentic Ancient Coin of:Saloninus - Caesar: 258-259 and Roman Emperor: 260 A.D. Silver Antoninianus 21mm (2.87 grams) Cologne, struck 258-259 A.D. Reference: Cohen 41. MIR 914e. RIC 9 SALON VALERIANVS CAES Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Saloninus to right. PIETAS AVG Lituus, secespita, guttus, simpulum, and aspergillum.You are bidding on the exact item pictured, provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime Guarantee of Authenticity. Publius Licinius Cornelius Saloninus (242 - 260) was Roman Emperor in 260.Saloninus was born around the year 242. His father was the later emperor Gallienus, his mother Cornelia Salonina a Greek from Bithynia. In 258 Saloninus was appointed Caesar by his father (just like his older brother Valerian II, who had died around 258) and sent to Gaul, to make sure his father's authority was respected there. (The title Caesar in Imperial nomenclature indicated that the holder was the Crown Prince and First-in-line-of Succession after Augustus, the title reserved to the ruling Emperor). Like Valerian II who was made the ward of Ingenuus,governor of the Illyrian provinces, Saloninus was put under the protection of Silvanus (praetorian prefect) (otherwise named as Albanus) As Caesar in Gaul Saloninus had his main seat in Cologne.Bray conjectures that Saloninus's appointment as Caesar, like that of his elder brother, Valerian II, in Illyria, was made at the instigation of Valerian who was, at once, the senior Emperor (Augustus) and grandfather of the two young Caesars and, as head of the Licinius clan, exercised also the potestas patriae over all members of the Imperial family, including his son Gallienus, his co-Emperor (and co-Augustus). Bray suggests that Valerian's motive in making these appointments was the establishment of an Imperial dynasty, thus making the succession more secure. We do not know how Valerian envisaged his grandson interacting with the existing governors and military commanders of the Gallic provinces. There is no reason to suppose that he ever thought the thing through as systematically as Diocletian when he established the Tetrarchy some thirty years later. However, Silvanus must have been a seasoned soldier/administrator and he does seem to have harboured the notion that, as guardian of Valerian, he should exercise real authority in Gaul. This was demonstrated by the circumstances in which he fell out with the usurper Postumus.In 260 (probably in July) Silvanus (no doubt in Saloninus's name) ordered Postumus to hand over some booty that Postumus's troops had seized from a German warband which had been on its way home from a successful raid into Gaul. However, Postumus's men took violent exception to this attempt to enforce the rights of the representative of a distant Emperor who was manifestly failing in his duty to protect the Gallic provinces. Asserting what was probably the prevailing Custom of the Frontier they turned on Saloninus and Silvanus who had to then flee to Cologne with some loyal troops. It was probably at this time that Postumus was acclaimed Emperor by his army. Riding the tiger of military discontent which he could barely control, Postumus then besieged Saloninus and Silvanus in Cologne.Gallienus, who was fully engaged elsewhere - probably campaigning on the middle Danube - could do nothing to save his son. (By this time Saloninus's grandfather, the senior Emperor, Valerian was probably already a captive of the Persian King Shapur). Saloninus's troops, in their desperation, finally proclaimed him Emperor, perhaps hoping that this would induce Postumus's army to desert him and join them in a bid for Empire - i.e. against Valerian and Gallienus. If this was indeed their hope, they were to be disappointed in the event for Postumus's army pressed on with the siege and, about one month later, the citizens of Cologne handed Valerian and his guardian over to their enemy. Postumus was then unable to prevent his army from murdering them. (Despite his public protestations of regret, it seems unlikely, in fact, that Postumus made a serious effort to this resist this course of events).Whether or not Gallienus ever concurred with Valerian's dynastic experiment is not known. Certainly the murder of Saloninus so soon after the suspicious death of Valerian II (q.v.)seems to have cured Gallienus of any ambition in this regard. (We may assume that Valerian's mother, Salonina, would have been most unhappy: the death of her elder son, Valerian II, in Illyria under the tutelage of Ingenuus must have seemed to her to have confirmed her worst fears of this sort of arrangement). It had certainly proved to be folly to set up inexperienced boys as hostages to fortune and hope that their relationship to the Imperial family would quell provincial resentment at what was perceived as the inability of the central government to secure the frontiers from barbarian attack. 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Price: 750.8 USD

Location: Rego Park, New York

End Time: 2024-01-29T21:04:00.000Z

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