From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.



                  Lot # 488 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$4000 / Price 
                  Realized: US$4500 
                  Otacilia Severa, Philip I, and Philip II as Caesar. Bimetallic 
                  orichalcum and copper medallion on oversize flan, 44 mm 



             



            Otacilia Severa, Philip I, and Philip II as Caesar. (). Bimetallic 
            orichalcum and copper medallion on oversize flan, 44 mm (77.13 gm). 
            Rome, 244-247 AD. MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG, draped bust of Otacilia 
            right, wearing stephane / PIETAS AVGVSTORVM, draped busts of Philip 
            I, laureate, and Philip II, bare-headed, vis a vis, both busts seen 
            from behind. Bachofen von Echt 2020, pl. 24 (same dies). Gnecchi 1 
            (5 specimens), pl. 110.2 (same obverse die). Cohen 1 (500 Fr.). 
            Bimetallic flan, the central disk being red copper, while the outer 
            ring is of yellow orichalcum. Extraordinarily broad and heavy at 44 
            mm and 77.13 gm; the von Echt specimen, by contrast, also 
            bimetallic, is only 36 mm and 52.69 gm, which are about the normal 
            dimensions of medallions of this period. Green and brown patina. 
            Fine. 

            This medallion comes in two varieties, not distinguished by Gnecchi: 
            Philip II’s bust on the reverse may be seen from behind, as on the 
            von Echt specimen and on ours, or it may be seen from the front, as 
            on the Paris specimen illustrated by Gnecchi. Judging from the 
            identical form and placement of the letters of the reverse legend, 
            both variants may actually come from the same reverse die, the 
            portraits merely having been re-engraved and enlarged to create the 
            second stage of the die, shown by the Paris coin, and Philip II’s 
            bust type having been changed. 




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