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Message:: [QUOTE="ancient coin hunter, post: 3739841, member: 87200"]Beautiful coin and a nice example of OS. On Otacilia, here is a snippet... "Severa and Philip are sometimes considered as the first Christian imperial couple, because during their reign the persecutions of Christians had ceased and the couple had become tolerant towards Christianity but their beliefs have not been proven. It was through her intervention, for instance, that Bishop and Saint Babylas of Antioch was saved from persecution. In 249, the Danubian armies proclaimed Decius Augustus and in August, Philip died in battle near Verona and Decius became the sole emperor. Severa was in Rome at that time and when the news of her husband’s death arrived, their son was murdered by the Praetorian Guard still in her arms. Severa survived her husband and son and lived later in obscurity. It is mentioned in the Roan scripts of Malta V.118 of the museum of Valletta that she had set sail to the land of Aliya Shamsan to live in the birthplace of Phillip." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Otacilia_Severa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Otacilia_Severa" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Otacilia_Severa</a>[/QUOTE]