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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 3558351, member: 83175&quot;]This is an ugly but rare Otho duckling - only known from one pair of dies.&nbsp;&nbsp; RIC 2 - Bare head right, IMP OTHO CAESAR AVG TR P / Ceres, CERES AVG.</p><p><br /></p><p>It had a hole drilled into the edge (not visible here) and a small amount of silver removed for metallurgical analysis as part of a study reported in &quot;The Denarii of Otho: A stylistic and Compositional Study&quot;, in Italian Numismatic Review 2009.</p><p>Some of the other coins used for the study had a quarter or up to half of the coin removed and melted, so this one got off lightly.&nbsp;&nbsp; The coins used for the paper were sold by a Vcoins dealer in 2010 and I haven&#039;t noticed any of the cut-up coins since.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_OthoDenariusRIC2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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