brm_1078123 - OTACILIA SEVERA Antoninien
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Type : Antoninien
Date: 244
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 450 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,81 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire remarquable avec un superbe buste et un joli revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : MARCIA OTACIL - SEVERA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé d'Otacilia Sévéra à droite vu de trois quarts en avant, posé sur un croissant (L15).
Obverse translation : “Marcia Otacilia Severa Augusta”, (Marcia Otacilia Sévéra augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PIETAS AVG.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) voilée et diadémée debout de face tournée à gauche, tenant une boite à encens de la main gauche et étendant la main droite au-dessus d'un enfant.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augusti”, (La Piété de l'augusta).
Commentary
Poids léger. Portrait tout à fait inhabituel de très joli style avec une césure de légende de droit intéressante.
Lightweight. A very unusual portrait in a very attractive style with an interesting caption caesura.
Lightweight. A very unusual portrait in a very attractive style with an interesting caption caesura.
Historical background
OTACILIA SEVERA
(+249)
Wife of Philippus I, mother of Philippus II - Augusta
Otacilie, daughter of Severus, governor of Pannonia, married Philip around 234. Philip II, their son, was born around 237. She seems to have sympathy for Christians, who enjoyed relative security under Philip's reign before the great persecution. by Trajan Decius. Her fate after the death of her husband and son is unknown. Is she murdered or does she retreat into private life? She disappears from history.
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