bpv_540695 - OTACILIA SEVERA Tétradrachme
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Price : 240.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: 247-248
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : billon
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 12,4 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un large, bien centré. Beau Buste et joli revers avec la Piété debout. La pièce est couverte d’une patine d’ancienne collection
Catalogue references :
MRMA.75.53 - D.
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de Gibut & Naumann, Auction 38, lot N°673
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste drapé et diadémé d’Otacilia Sévéra à droite, les cheveux remontés en tresse sur la tête, posé sur un croissant de lune, vu de trois quarts en avant (L15).
Obverse legend : M wT SEOUHRA SE M sTRA
Obverse translation : (Marcia Otacilia Severa augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : L - E.
Reverse description : Eusebeia, Pietas (la Piété) voilée et drapée debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite au-dessus d’un autel.
Reverse translation : (an 5).
Commentary
Revers inhabituel.
Unusual reverse
Unusual reverse
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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