v08_0374 - OTACILIA SEVERA Antoninien
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 83.85 €
Estimate : 129.58 €
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Starting price : 83.85 €
Estimate : 129.58 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 248
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 400 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,67 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Emission: 8e
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire. Jolie patine de médaillier / Flan légèrement taché au revers
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 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 : (La Piété des augustes).
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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