v18_0556 - OTACILIA SEVERA Antoninien
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
Realised price : 75.00 €
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
Realised price : 75.00 €
Type : Antoninien
Date: 247
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 450 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,94 g.
Officine: 4e
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Joli revers. Patine de médaillier
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : OTACIL SEVERA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste drapé d'Otacilia Severa à droite, avec stéphané, vu de trois quarts en avant, posé sur le croissant (L15).
Obverse translation : “Otacilia Severa Augusta”, (Otacilia Severa augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORDIA AVGG.
Reverse description : Concordia (La Concorde) assise de face, tournée à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite au-dessus d'un autel et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Augustorum” (La Concorde des Empereurs).
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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