Augusta A.D. 274-275
Billon Antoninianus
Siscia mint
Obv: SEVERI-NAE AVG
Rev: CONDORDIAE M-ILITVM - Concordia, standing left, holding two ensigns
XXI in exergue; S in right field
RIC 13
22mm, 4.1g.
Ulpia Severina was the wife of the emperor Aurelian. Little is known about her except what can be gleaned from her coins. Apparently there were coins minted with her image after her husband's death. Because of this, many scholars suggest that she may have reigned as Augusta for a while after her husband's death, until the Senate could confirm Tacitus as his successor. If this is correct, then she is the only woman to reign as sole empress during the entire history of the Empire.
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