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Live auction - brm_462377 - OTACILIA SEVERA Antoninien

OTACILIA SEVERA Antoninien MS/MS
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Estimate : 280 €
Price : 180 €
Maximum bid : 180 €
End of the sale : 30 January 2018 14:48:26
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Antoninien
Date: 248
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 450 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,74 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Portrait d’Otacilia Sévéra de toute beauté. Revers finement détaillé. Très belle patine de médaillier avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : 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 : “Otacilia Severa Augusta”, (Otacilia Sévéra augusta).

Reverse


Reverse legend : PIETAS AVGG/.
Reverse description : Pietas (la Piété) voilée et diadémée debout de face tournée à gauche, tenant une boîte à encens de la main gauche et versant de l'encens au-dessus d'un autel allumé.
Reverse legend : D|-.
Reverse translation : “Pietas Augustorum”, (La Piété des augustes).

Commentary


Première émission avec lettres d’officines grecques (6) dont la quatrième est réservée à l’impératrice.

Historical background


OTACILIA SEVERA

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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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