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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 1715261, member: 44183&quot;]<font size="3"></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #0000ff">Windchild =&gt; and the ol&#039; Hippo Otacilla Severa just touched the $1000 mark after shipping costs ... sorry to jump-into your thread Batman, but ummm, it was you that told me that I should buy this Hippo coin (thanks, by the way =&gt; I still &quot;love&quot; it!!):</span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #0000ff"></span></font><span style="color: #ff0000"><b><font face="Arial"><font size="3">Otacilia Severa. Augusta, Æ Sestertius </font></font></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">AD 244-249</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">Secular Games issue., 4th officina. 9th emission of Philip I, AD 248</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Rome</font><font face="Arial"> mint</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">Diameter: 28 mm</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">Weight: 15.99 grams</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">Obverse: Draped bust right, wearing stephane</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">Reverse: Hippopotamus standing right</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">Reference: RIC IV 200a (Philip I); Banti 13</span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">Other:12h … Good VF, dark brown patina, with some red. </span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><font face="Arial"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection.</font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">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><font face="Arial">Rome</font><font face="Arial"> 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></span></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH]264530.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]264531.vB[/ATTACH]</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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