Live auction - bpv_310146 - OTACILIA SEVERA Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Live starting : Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 248
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 27,00 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 11,93 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bien centré, légère usure de circulation
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire est le 0391_002 de la base TSP, il provient de la vente Gorny 142 du 10 octobre 2005, lot 3461
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste drapé et diadémé d’Otacilia Sévéra à gauche, les cheveux remontés en tresse sur la tête, posé sur un croissant de lune, vu de trois quarts en avant (L16).
Obverse legend : MAR WTAKILI SEOUHRAN SEB.
Obverse translation : (Marcia Otacilia Severa augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANTIOXIA / S|C À L’EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche, les ailes largement déployées, tête et queue à droite, tenant une couronne feuillée dans son bec.
Reverse legend : DHMARC - EX OUSIAS UPATOG.
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne / Consul pour la troisième fois / avec l’accord du Sénat d’Antioche).
Commentary
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, trois exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés pour ce type, un en musée, à Yale ex Doura.
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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