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<p>[QUOTE="gregarious, post: 2783616, member: 82430"]Old habits die hard. As in my youth, i "collected" women..and it seems I'm doing so again in my old age(only a little differently<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />). i love them gals<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Empress Ulpia Severina joins the sewing circle in my collection today. i did get a little "off trek" there for a minute, but i'm back in black on ancient coins and artifacts. Severina was the wife of Emperor Aurelian,(emp.270-275) who ended the empires "crisis of the 3rd century", who's official titles included Restitutor Orbis and dominus et deus, 1st one to do so on official documents and rightly so.</p><p>After Aurelians death in 275, there is evidence that Upia Severnia was sole ruler because there was not another male emperor installed until Tacitus and her coins appear to have continued to have been minted until that time. She was made Augusta no later than 274 and also held the titles of Pia and mater castrorum et senatus et patriae. For whatever reasons, there's only the mention of an interregnum after Aurelians death in the histories, and no mention of Severnia being sole ruler .Modern historians have had to piece their information on her solely from what we love, coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Antoninianus of Empress Severnia [ATTACH=full]644641[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]644642[/ATTACH]</p><p>FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR COMMENTS AND COINS PEEPS<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gregarious, post: 2783616, member: 82430"]Old habits die hard. As in my youth, i "collected" women..and it seems I'm doing so again in my old age(only a little differently:rolleyes:). i love them gals:) Empress Ulpia Severina joins the sewing circle in my collection today. i did get a little "off trek" there for a minute, but i'm back in black on ancient coins and artifacts. Severina was the wife of Emperor Aurelian,(emp.270-275) who ended the empires "crisis of the 3rd century", who's official titles included Restitutor Orbis and dominus et deus, 1st one to do so on official documents and rightly so. After Aurelians death in 275, there is evidence that Upia Severnia was sole ruler because there was not another male emperor installed until Tacitus and her coins appear to have continued to have been minted until that time. She was made Augusta no later than 274 and also held the titles of Pia and mater castrorum et senatus et patriae. For whatever reasons, there's only the mention of an interregnum after Aurelians death in the histories, and no mention of Severnia being sole ruler .Modern historians have had to piece their information on her solely from what we love, coins. Antoninianus of Empress Severnia [ATTACH=full]644641[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]644642[/ATTACH] FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR COMMENTS AND COINS PEEPS:)[/QUOTE]
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