brm_910924 - OTACILIA SEVERA Antoninien
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 247
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 450 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,77 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Flan idéalement centré. Les deux côtés sont bien venus. Superbe buste au droit. Patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : M 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 : CONCORDIA AVGG.
Reverse description : Concordia (la Concorde) assise de face, tournée 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.
Lightweight
Lightweight
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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