Æ34 - Otacilia Severa ΙωΤΑΠΙΤΩΝ

Iotape was a small client kingdom in Cilicia Tracheia that Rome absorbed into the province of Syria during the first century AD — the town itself, however, continued striking civic bronze under imperial portraits well into the third century. These issues were produced during the brief joint reign of Philip I and Otacilia Severa, before Philip was killed near Verona in 249 during the usurpation of Decius. For a city of Iotape's modest scale, the survival rate of these bronzes is low, and RPC VIII 2212 remains sparsely documented in major collections.