This was just delivered by hand..It's been a long road with many turns for many years, losing out on bids, and even buying one only to find out it was counterfeit in 2015, but i've finally got an authentic(i'm 99% sure) coin of Otho. O, its got a couple of chips missing from it, but that doesn't bother me in the least! I am most happy and very grateful to have it. excuse the pics for i was shaking with delight when i took them. lets party! POST YOUR COINS AND COMMENTS PEEPS! Otho Victoria Othonis AR denarius, 69 AD wigged head right obverse, winged flying victory holding wreath and palm branch right reverse 2.41gms. Ref:RIC I 14, RSC 27 Sear 2164 BMC 22
Coingrats, ominus!!! Great portrait and desirable reverse type! I also like how the reverse fills in the name for you... so it doesn't matter at all that it's missing from the obverse. Otho is special, you will always love this one, especially after all those twists and turns.
Way to go ominuthalymus! Great looking portrait with a wonderful view of the rug (I'm sure you know that Otho is known to have worn a hair piece). I can one up that for wear (just a small chip really) with a seleucis Otho (my pop misattributed it as Nero when he gave it to me). Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch. Otho AD69.
Fantastic coin ominus1, I wouldn't care about the chips missing with such a great portrait. Terrific acquisition.
More members the better. Otho (69 A.D.) Egypt, Alexandria Billon Tetradrachm O: AYTOK MAPK OΘΩNOΣ KAIΣ ΣEB, laureate head right, LA (year 1) lower right. R: EΛEY-ΘEPIA, Eleutheria (Liberty) standing left, wreath in extended right hand, scepter in left hand, leaning with left elbow on column, simpulum (ladle used for tasting and pouring sacrificial libations) left in lower left field. 12.58g 24.4mm Milne 359; RPC I 5354 (5 spec.); Dattari 327; BMC Alexandria p. 25, 208; Curtis 238; Kampmann 18.6; Emmett 184 This variety with a simpulum on the reverse is much rarer than the same type without this control symbol. RPC reports only 5 specimens with the simpulum and 17 specimens without it. This variety is missing from the important collections in Cologne, Paris, and Milan, and we know of only one example offered at auction in the past two decades (CNG 76, 12 Sep 2007, lot 3152, VF, $430 plus fees).
Congrats! Getting an Otho in silver can destroy your wallet! Here's mine Otho Tetradrachm AYTOKPATWP M OΘWN KAICAP CEBACTOC Laureate head right ETOYC A Eagle, wings raised, standing left on two laurel branches, wreath in beak, palm branch in left field, crescent between eagle's legs Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch ad Orontem 69 AD 14.44g Prieur-101, RPC-4199, McAlee-316. Rare ex-ANE Amazing jet black toning
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Congratulations @ominus1 ! I really like that reverse type for Otho. It has a very nice portrait. Here is mine. It was the first ancient coin I ever purchased. It has the common reverse type.