v41_0777 - OTACILIA SEVERA Antoninien
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 120.00 €
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 120.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 247
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 450 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,81 g.
Officine: 4e
Emission: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Revers de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Obverse
Obverse legend : M OTACIL SEVERA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé d'Otacilia Sévéra à droite, avec stéphané, vu de trois quarts en avant, posé sur un croissant (L15).
Obverse translation : “Marcia Otacilia Severa Augusta”, (Marcia Otacilia Sévéra augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCOR-DIA AVGG.
Reverse description : Concordia (la Concorde) drapée, assise à gauche, les jambes croisées, tenant une patère de la main droite et une double corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Augustorum”, (La Concorde des augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Très beau buste. Césure inhabituelle dans la légende de revers.
Lightweight. Very nice bust. Unusual caesura in the reverse legend.
Lightweight. Very nice bust. Unusual caesura in the reverse legend.
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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