Severa and Philip are generally considered as the first Christian imperial couple, because during their reign the persecutions of Christians had ceased and the couple had become tolerant towards Christianity but their beliefs has not been proven. It was through her intervention, for instance, that Bishop and Saint Babylas of Antioch was saved from persecution.
In 249, the Danubian armies proclaimed Decius Augustus and in August, Philip died in battle near Verona and Decius became the sole emperor. Severa was in Rome at that time and when the news of her husband’s death arrived, their son was murdered by the Praetorian Guard still in her arms. Severa survived her husband and son and lived later in obscurity.
Reverse: eagle facing, head left, standing on palm branch, wreath in beak; ΔHMAΡX__EΞOVCIAC; S C
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 11.7 g
Reverse: CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopiae
Die Orientation: 0 H
Weight: 3.7 g
Reverse: Concordia seated left holding patera and double cornucopia; CONCORDIA AVGG / S C
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 15.77 g
Reverse: Concordia seated left, sacrificing over altar and holding patera and cornucopia; CONCORDIA AVGG
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.64 g
Reverse: Concordia seated left, sacrificing over altar and holding cornucopia; CONCORDIA AVGG
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.68 g
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Reverse: CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia seated left, holding patera and double cornucopiae
Die Orientation: 11 H
Weight: 3.68 g
Reverse: two wreaths; IEPAΠOΛEITΩN K EΦECIΩN NEΩ / KOPΩN // OMONOIA
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 6.2 g
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Reverse: CONCORDIA AVGG, Concordia seated to left, holding patera and double cornucopiae; SC in exergue
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 20.19 g
Reverse: Homonoia facing, head left, wearing kalathos, holding patera and cornucopia; BIZ_VH_NΩN
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 11.4 g