Coin Portraying Empress Salonina

<p>The front (obverse) of this coin portrays the empress Salonina, facing right and crowned with a diadem.</p> <p>On the back (reverse) Elpis, the goddess of hope, walks left holding a flower and raising the hem of her robe. A palm branch and a partial inscription are seen in the field behind her.</p> <p>Salonina was married to the Roman emperor Gallienus, who reigned jointly with his father, Valerian, from 253-260, then as sole emperor to 268. The date this coin was struck is indicated in the reverse inscription &quot;LIΔ &quot;, which means the fourteenth year of Gallienus's reign, or 266-267 CE.</p>