Salonin (258-260) Aureus - Rome (258) D’une insigne rareté et d’une qualité remarquable. Probablement le plus bel exemplaire connu. Exemplaire de la vente Leu 10 du 29 mai 1974, N°362 et de la collection S. Weintraub et de la collection N. B. Hunt vente Sotheby’s (New-York) des 21 et 22 juin 1990, N°822 et de la collection A. L. Casden vente Leu 52 du 15 mai 1991, N°247 et de la vente NAC 40 du 16 mai 2007, N°815 et de la collection S. C. Markoff vente NAC 62 du 6 octobre 2011, N°2070 2.24g - Cal. 3688 (mêmes coins) Superbe - AU * Saloninus (born c. AD 242) was still a child when this coin was struck: Gallienus had first raised his eldest son Valerian II (born c. AD 240) to the rank of Caesar, but when he died during the summer of AD 258 the title was bestowed on his younger son. He only became Augustus shortly before being executed in AD 260, when Cologne capitulated in front of the rebel com- mander Postumus.