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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 1654241, member: 44183&quot;]<font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #800000"><b>Ancient Coins =&gt; Hip-Hip-Hip-Hippo!! (ya gotta love it!!)</b></span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #800000"><b><br /></b></span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #800000"><b><br /></b></span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #800000"><b></b></span>... my &quot;coin-guy&quot; hinted that this is a pretty cool coin, so a took a sip of wine and pulled the trigger!! (owww, I love that feeling!!)</font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"></font></font><span style="color: #0000ff"><b><font face="arial"><font size="4">Otacilia Severa. Augusta, Æ Sestertius </font></font></b></span></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">AD 244-249</span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">Secular Games issue., 4th officina. 9th emission of Philip I, AD 248</span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">Rome</span></font></font><font face="arial"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font size="4"> mint</font></span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">Diameter: 28 mm</span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">Weight: 15.99 grams</span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">Obverse: Draped bust right, wearing stephane</span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">Reverse: Hippopotamus standing right</span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">Reference: RIC IV 200a (Philip I); Banti 13</span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">Other:12h … Good VF, dark brown patina, with some red. </span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection</span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">[ATTACH]241940.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]241941.vB[/ATTACH]</span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">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 </span></font></font><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="arial"><font size="4">Rome</font></font><font face="arial"><font size="4"> culminated during the reign of Philip I, as the city celebrated her 1,000th anniversary 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</font></font></font></span></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="4"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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