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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2538242, member: 44183&quot;]<b><span style="color: #0000ff">Smojo =&gt; congrats on your 1000th post ... </span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Otacilia Severa. Augusta, Æ Sestertius </span></b></p><p>AD 244-249</p><p>Secular Games issue., 4th officina. 9th emission of Philip I, AD 248</p><p>Rome mint</p><p>Diameter: 28 mm</p><p>Weight: 15.99 grams</p><p>Obverse: Draped bust right, wearing stephane</p><p>Reverse: Hippopotamus standing right</p><p>Reference: RIC IV 200a (Philip I); Banti 13</p><p>Other:12h … Good VF, dark brown patina, with some red</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]543470[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">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 <font size="6">Rome</font> culminated during the reign of Philip I, as the city celebrated her <font size="6">1,000th anniversary</font> in AD 248. The legends on these issues almost exclusively read SAECVLARES AVGG, 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</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033"><br /></span></i></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... her hubby as well ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Philip-I (Phil the Arab)</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #000000">248 BC</span></p><p><i><span style="color: #660033">[ATTACH=full]543472[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]543473[/ATTACH] </span></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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