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| Gemini, LLC > Auction VI | Auction date: 10 January 2010 |
| Lot number: 735 | |
| Lot description: Otacilia Severa, Wife of Philip I. . AE 29, 12.86g. Samaria, Neapolis, 247-9 AD. Obv: M OT SEVERAE AVG M C Draped bust right on crescent, wearing stephane. Rx: [COL IVL] - FL SERG NEA[…] City goddess standing left, head front, wearing turreted crown, setting right foot on recumbant lion, holding in right hand Mount Gerizim surmounted by temple and altar, in left hand scepter topped by globe. M C in the obverse legend stands for Matri Castrorum, "Mother of the Camps", a title borne by several empresses from Faustina II on. Harl, Museum Notes 29, 1984, 54 (same dies). BM 136 (same dies). Not in SNG ANS. Fine. Ex Dr. Stephen Gerson Collection. Ex Triton VI, 14-15 January 2003, lot 578 (part). Ex Superior, 8 December 1999, lot 1593. Estimate: US$250 |  |
