bpv_531984 - OTACILIA SEVERA Tétradrachme
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Tétradrachme
Date: 244-245
Mint name / Town : Alexandrie, Égypte
Metal : billon
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 13,50 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire dans un état de conservation remarquable avec un joli revers de style fin. Patine de collection ancienne
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection ENP
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 - B.
Reverse description : Aigle debout à gauche, la tête tournée à droite, tenant une couronne dans le bec.
Reverse translation : (an 2).
Commentary
Type inhabituel.
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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