Rare Hybrid of Otacilia Severa and Philip I

447, Lot: 525. Estimate $150. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Otacilia Severa. Augusta, AD 244-249. Æ Sestertius (27mm, 16.41 g, 12h). Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) issue, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Rome. Rome mint, 3rd officina. 9th emission of Philip I, AD 248. MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG, draped bust right, wearing stephane / SAECVLARES AVGG, S [C] in exergue, Goat advancing left. RIC IV 201; Banti 14. Green patina, some earthen deposits. VF. Rare.

From the Midwest Collection.

The note in RIC IV, p. 93 says that this “rev. is really proper to Philip I–hybrid?”