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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3674189, member: 99456"]Reviving this thread of Severina with a handsome portrait of the empress. This celator was also fairly heavy handed on the mustache. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]987131[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Ulpia Severina</b>, Æ Antoninianus, Rome, AD 275 (the year Aurelian was murdered)</p><p><b>Obv: </b>SEVERINA AVG, diademed and draped bust right, on crescent</p><p><b>Rev:</b> CONCORDIAE MILITVM, Concordia standing left with a standard in each hand; Z in right field; XXIR in exergue</p><p><b>Size:</b> 22mm, 4.59g</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RCV 11705</p><p>Here's <a href="http://community.vcoins.com/themencode-pdf-viewer-sc/?file=http://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.20-No.03-Mar-2006.pdf&settings=001110111&lang=en-US#page=8&zoom=auto&pagemode=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://community.vcoins.com/themencode-pdf-viewer-sc/?file=http://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.20-No.03-Mar-2006.pdf&settings=001110111&lang=en-US#page=8&zoom=auto&pagemode=" rel="nofollow">an interesting article</a> in the Celator Mar 2006 on the question of her interregnum rule. This coin shows <i>"Severina (or possibly the goddess Concordia) standing facing with two military standards. The reverse motif underlining the harmony with the military is most remarkable for a women and not known on coinage for any other empress."</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>David Sear writes in RCV:<i> The numismatic evidence makes it quite clear that issues in her name continued for some time after Aurelian's death, though the precise length of this "interregnum" period is much disputed by scholars...t now seems likely that the new emperor's proclamation took place less than two months after his predecessor's murder"</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3674189, member: 99456"]Reviving this thread of Severina with a handsome portrait of the empress. This celator was also fairly heavy handed on the mustache. [ATTACH=full]987131[/ATTACH] [B]Ulpia Severina[/B], Æ Antoninianus, Rome, AD 275 (the year Aurelian was murdered) [B]Obv: [/B]SEVERINA AVG, diademed and draped bust right, on crescent [B]Rev:[/B] CONCORDIAE MILITVM, Concordia standing left with a standard in each hand; Z in right field; XXIR in exergue [B]Size:[/B] 22mm, 4.59g [B]Ref:[/B] RCV 11705 Here's [URL='http://community.vcoins.com/themencode-pdf-viewer-sc/?file=http://community.vcoins.com/thecelator/The-Celator-Vol.20-No.03-Mar-2006.pdf&settings=001110111&lang=en-US#page=8&zoom=auto&pagemode=']an interesting article[/URL] in the Celator Mar 2006 on the question of her interregnum rule. This coin shows [I]"Severina (or possibly the goddess Concordia) standing facing with two military standards. The reverse motif underlining the harmony with the military is most remarkable for a women and not known on coinage for any other empress." [/I] David Sear writes in RCV:[I] The numismatic evidence makes it quite clear that issues in her name continued for some time after Aurelian's death, though the precise length of this "interregnum" period is much disputed by scholars...t now seems likely that the new emperor's proclamation took place less than two months after his predecessor's murder"[/I][/QUOTE]
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