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<p>[QUOTE="maridvnvm, post: 8342061, member: 31620"]I am not an expert on the coinage of Otho.</p><p><br /></p><p>The hair is the least Otho like I have seen on any of his coins. Even worn examples show traces of the distinctive hair style / wig.</p><p><br /></p><p>The legends are very peculiar too. The formation of OTHO doesn't follow the beaded edge. The Os are irregular in shape and the letter T and H merge. The E of CAESAR is odd too.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that being said I don't know what to make of it. I wouldn't have bought it because of those issues I list above but it could be an Otho and just an outlier style wise. </p><p><br /></p><p>I did think it might be tooled from something else but have spent a while trying to figure what it is derived from but I have no idea what it could have been.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="maridvnvm, post: 8342061, member: 31620"]I am not an expert on the coinage of Otho. The hair is the least Otho like I have seen on any of his coins. Even worn examples show traces of the distinctive hair style / wig. The legends are very peculiar too. The formation of OTHO doesn't follow the beaded edge. The Os are irregular in shape and the letter T and H merge. The E of CAESAR is odd too. All that being said I don't know what to make of it. I wouldn't have bought it because of those issues I list above but it could be an Otho and just an outlier style wise. I did think it might be tooled from something else but have spent a while trying to figure what it is derived from but I have no idea what it could have been.[/QUOTE]
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