Obverse: MARC OTACI SEVERA AVG - Diademed bust right, draped on a crescent
Reverse: PIETAS AVGG - Pietas standing left, raising hand and holding box of perfume.
References:
RIC, vol. IV iii, p. 83, 121
Cohen 34
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.
