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438, Lot: 563. Estimate $100.
Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Otacilia Severa. Augusta, AD 244-249. AR Antoninianus (21mm, 5.08 g, 6h). Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) issue, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Rome. Rome mint, 4th officina. 9th emission of Philip I, AD 248. OTACIL SEVERA AVG, draped bust right, wearing stephane, set on crescent / SAECVLARES AVGG, hippopotamus right; IIII in exergue. RIC IV 116b (Philip I); RSC 63. Good VF, lightly toned.


Continuing the tradition of Claudius and Antoninus Pius before him, the celebration of the Secular Games at the end of every century since the founding of Rome culminated during the reign of Philip I, as the city celebrated her 1,000th anniversary in AD 248. The legends on these issues frequently read Saeculares Augg, and feature a similar iconography from previous games, such as the she-wolf suckling the twins, the various wild beasts paraded through the amphitheater, and a cippus inscribed for the preservation of the memory of these events.