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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 25159249, member: 42034&quot;]Note that I didn&#039;t say it wasn&#039;t a coin of Otho.&nbsp; I said that it doesn&#039;t look like Otho.&nbsp; In the Colonial coinage of the Spanish Kings (1700&#039;s-early 1800&#039;s) when one would die they&#039;d often use the previous one&#039;s portrait but with the titles of the new king.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes, when left to their own devices, they&#039;d simply make up an &quot;Imaginary portrait&quot; of the new King.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since your coin says &quot;OTHO on it, it was made depicting Otho.&nbsp; However I still think that it doesn&#039;t look like Otho as whoever engraved the design didn&#039;t yet have a picture of Otho.&nbsp; Thus it resembles the previous guy (Galba) with the nose fixed up a little bit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Otho looked very different.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1603767[/ATTACH]</p><p>Otho photo from Ed Wadell but I removed his listing# &amp; price.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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