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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3740508, member: 87809&quot;]What a lovely hippo, Marsman. </p><p><br /></p><p>Only have one from Otacilia, an Antoninianus:</p><p>22 x 24&nbsp; mm, 3.44 g</p><p>Rome, 247 AD, (7th Issue, 4th Officina) struck under the authority of Philip the Arab</p><p>Ref.: RIC IV Part iii Philip I 126; Cohen 17; RCV 2000 Edition, 9149;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: M OTACIL SEVERA AVG diademed, and draped bust right on crescent; hair weaved in straight lines and rows with long plait carried up the back of head</p><p>Rev.: CONCORDIA AVGG, (&quot;The empress and emperor endeavor as one in agreement&quot;) Concordia seated left, holding patera and single cornucopiae, altar before</p><p><br /></p><p>There were three different obverse inscriptions for coins issued for this empress by the mint in Rome. Coins from the earliest period, AD 244-246, read MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG; from the middle period, AD 246-248, M OTACIL SEVERA AVG; from the last period, AD 248-249, OTACIL SEVERA AVG. Concordia seated types were issued bearing all three different obverse legends. All are quite common in the antoninianus denomination.</p><p>The crescent is also a value representation: a double Denarius = 1 Antoninianus</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1003284[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1003285[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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