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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24737365, member: 26430&quot;]As Jyrki Muona featured prominently in this thread&#039;s original plot (he&#039;s a very prominent Otho specialist), I&#039;ll post my sole Otho, which is previously from the Jyrki Muona Collection.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Before and after photos of the Otho:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582448[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Many people find this bizarre, but I actually consider this coin much <i><b>more</b></i> desirable for having been &quot;quartered&quot; (rather, for the reasons it was quartered):</p><p><br /></p><p>Muona donated several dozen of his AR Denarii to science. Butcher &amp; Ponting drilled holes in most of them to analyze the changing metallurgy of early Imperial silver coinage. Some coins they &quot;sectioned&quot; for microscopy photographs.</p><p><br /></p><p>They all contributed to several articles and the important 2014 volume <i>Metallurgy of Roman Silver Coinage: From the Reform of Nero to the Reforms of Trajan </i>(Cambridge Univ. Press). [There is a <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Metallurgy_of_Roman_Silver_Coinage/aBVoBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Metallurgy_of_Roman_Silver_Coinage/aBVoBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover" rel="nofollow">substantial preview on Google Books</a>.]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some of the photos of my Otho above (not that you can easily recognize it!):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582453[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin&#039;s metallurgical summary, included in the database on the UK Archaeology Data Service website:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582454[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>(I also have a Titus that followed the same trajectory... That one was in the &quot;orfew&quot; [Andrew Short] collection, who made a very similar post here about it.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582455[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, it would be preferable if &quot;non-destructive testing&quot; could have yielded the same results. But a great deal of knowledge was achieved through this research.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I think the sacrifice was worth it, and it feels like quite an honor to own a pair of coins that contributed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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