RPC — Type: 15974


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Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/15974 json ttl rdf xml epidoc
Volume	VIII
Number	— (unassigned; ID 15974)
Province	Syria Phoenice
Region	Syria
City	Damascus
Reign	Philip I
Person (obv.)	Otacilia Severa (Augusta)
Issue	Fine style
Dating	AD 247–9
Obverse inscription	M OTAC SEVERA AVG
Edition	M(arcia) Otac(ilia) Severa Aug(usta)
Translation	Marcia Otacilia Severa, Empress
Obverse design	diademed and draped bust of Otacilia Severa, right, crescent at shoulders
Reverse inscription	COL ΔAMA METRO
Edition	col(onia) Dama(scos) Metro(polis)
Translation	Colony of Damascus, metropolis
Reverse design	in upper register, Fortuna seated left, on rock, holding fillet or diadem and cornucopia; in upper left field, ram leaping left, head right; before, Marsyas standing right, holding wineskin and raising hand; in lower register, four Tychai: the outer pair with hands raised towards Fortuna of Damascus; left of centre figure holding up uncertain object; right of centre figure sacrificing over altar
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	29 mm
Average weight	16.80 g
Axis	1, 12
Specimens	6 (1 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
—	—	NY: 1944.100.83723		30	14.66	12		Show
—	— ✸	Winterthur: G 6969	GrMW III, 1004	30	18.84	1		Show
—	—		CNG EA 208, 8 Apr. 2009, lot 220 = Dix, Noonan Webb, 29 Sept. 2008, lot 5733	28	16.79	1		Show
—	—		CNG EA 341, 17 Dec. 2014, lot 55	29.3	18.00	12		Show
—	—		CNG EA 426, 8 Aug. 2018, lot 401	28.3	17.97	12	the rev. has a large dome-shaped device in place of Marsyas, however, the die in question is identical to coin no. 2, so this is not a new type; possibly the result of an attempt to repair a major flaw in the die?	Show
—	—		Roma Numismatics EA 98, 16 June 2022, lot 884	29.2	14.53	12		Show