Saloninus Ancient Roman Silver Antoninianus — Son of Gallienus (AD 260) — NGC Certified

Name: Saloninus Ancient Roman Silver Antoninianus — Son of Gallienus (AD 260) — NGC Certified
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Saloninus Antoninianus — The Young Caesar at the Birth of the Gallic Empire

Own an NGC-Certified Coin Tied to Rome’s Great Western Breakaway

A genuine Roman billon antoninianus of Saloninus, son of Gallienus and grandson of Valerian I, whose death at Cologne occurred during the revolt that established Postumus as ruler of the breakaway Gallic Empire.

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📷 Coin shown is a representative example. You will receive one authentic NGC-certified antoninianus of Saloninus. Exact reverse type, grade, strike, centering, silvering, toning, wear, and preservation may vary.

Why This Coin Matters

Saloninus was a son of Emperor Gallienus and a grandson of Valerian I. While still young, he was given the rank of Caesar and placed in the western provinces as a representative of the imperial dynasty during the Crisis of the Third Century.

In AD 260, conflict erupted between imperial officials at Cologne and the frontier commander Postumus. The surviving evidence for the sequence of events is incomplete, but Saloninus was elevated to Augustus during the crisis before Cologne fell to Postumus’s forces. Saloninus was then killed.

Postumus emerged as ruler of the Gallic Empire, a breakaway Roman regime that controlled much of Gaul and Britain and, for periods, territory in Hispania and Germania. It survived until Aurelian recovered the western provinces in AD 274.

Saloninus’s death did not by itself “create” the Gallic Empire. It was instead one of the decisive events in the revolt through which Postumus established his independent western regime.

This antoninianus therefore belongs to one of the most dramatic moments of Rome’s 3rd-century fragmentation.