82, Lot: 69. Estimate $100. Sold for $78. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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OTACILIA SEVERA, wife of Philip I. Augusta, 244-249 AD. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 15.45 gm). Struck 248 AD. Diademed and draped bust right / Hippopotamus standing right, head raised. RIC IV 200a (Philip I); Cohen 65. Near VF, brown and green patina, double struck on reverse.
Commemorates the millenial anniversary of the foundation of the city of Rome.