Obverse: OTACIL SEVERA AVG - Diademed bust right, draped and on a crescent
Reverse: SAECVLARES AVGG - Hippopotamus right
Mint marks:
exergue - IIII
References:
RIC, vol. IV iii, p. 82, 116b
Cohen 64
Otacilia Severa - Marcia Otacilia Severa:
Wife of Philip I "the Arab";
mother of Philip II.
Mints: Antioch
Rome
Biography: Marcia Otacilia Severa was the daughter of Severus, the governor of Panonnia and became wife of Philip the Arab about 234. It is not clear what happened to her after Philip and their son were murdered by the Praetorian Guard in 249 but she disappeared from history without trace.
