What a beauty for the Otho collectors 9 March - 17 April 69 A.D..Rome mint, 3.61g (19.7mm, 12h). IMP OTHO CAESAR AVG TR P, bare head right / PONT MAX, Ceres standing left, grain-ears in right, cornucopia in left; Pedigree: from the Jyrki Muona collection Grade: rare; attractive portrait, light toning on luster, good strike with fresh dies but very highest points a little weak. Superb EF
I do not collect silver, so I go a bronze Otho. Of course none where made in Rome, so I got the nicest Provincial I could find. Cost less than $ 11.000 but was not too cheap, either ;-p
i would like to have one, but the only one i ever had turned out to be a modern fake and i gave it away.
OTHO AR Denarius OBVERSE: IMP M OTHO CAESAR AVG TR P, bare head right REVERSE: VICTORIA OTHONIS, Victory standing left on globe, wreath extended in right, palm frond in left Struck at Rome, Jan-Feb 69 A.D 3.179g, 18.7mm RIC I 17, BMCRE I 25, SRCV I 2165