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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Recovery of the Empire| > |Severina| > SH04055
Severina, Augusta Spring 274 - November 275 A.D., Wife of Aurelian
|Severina|, |Severina,| |Augusta| |Spring| |274| |-| |November| |275| |A.D.,| |Wife| |of| |Aurelian|, Severina probably married Aurelian before he became emperor in 270. They had a daughter. According to her coinage, she gained the title Augusta in the autumn of 274, though she may have had the title earlier. She also received the titles Pia (pious) and mater castrorum et senatus et patriae (mother of the barracks (armies), senate, and country). There is considerable numismatic evidence Severina ruled in her own right between the death of Aurelian and the election of Tacitus. Sources mention an interregnum, and some of Severina's coins appear to have been minted after Aurelian's death. She may have been the only woman to rule over the whole Roman Empire in her own power.
SH04055. Billon antoninianus, MER-RIC 1558 (144 spec.), RIC V-1 9, Venèra 5724 - 5802, BnF XII 649 - 655, Hunter IV 26, Gloucester 298, Maravielle 383, Choice VF+, 5th officina, Ticinum (Pavia, Italy) mint, weight 3.68g, maximum diameter 21.7mm, die axis 180o, issue 4, Nov 274 - Sep 275; obverse SEVERINA AVG, draped bust right, wearing stephane, crescent behind shoulders; reverse PROVIDEN DEOR (the foresight of the gods) (Foresight of the gods), Fides (or Severina) standing right holding two standards, facing Sol standing slightly left, radiate, nude but for chlamys over shoulders and left arm, raising right hand commanding the sun to rise, globe in left UIXXT in exergue; from the Aiello Collection; SOLD










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