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<p>[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 8405942, member: 87809"]Nice coins of Otho, they definitely have character. I like those just imagining what stories they could tell us.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because I think that one has to have in one's collection at least one coin for each of the twelve Caesars, I have just one coin of Otho and it took me a while to get it<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Not sure about the mint.</p><p>The tetradrachms of Otho have eagles of virtually identical style to those on Galba’s tetradrachms.</p><p>The coinage with a ruler portrait on the obverse and an eagle and palm branch reverse often including other attributes (thunderbolt, club, animal thigh, etc.) ultimately derives from the late Seleucid silver coinage struck for Phoenicia and Coele Syria. On the Seleucid series (modeled after a Ptolemaic prototype), the region (Phoenicia) was indicated by the palm branch, while the symbols identified the mint of issue (i.e., ship’s ram at Tyre, trident at Berytus, etc.).</p><p><br /></p><p>AR Tetradrachm, Seleucis and Pieria, Antiochia ad Orontem or Berytos, January - April 69 AD, Regnal Year 1 = 68/69 AD</p><p>RPC 4199; McAlee 316; Prieur 101; BMC 215;</p><p>14.697 g; 26 mm, 1 h</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: AYTOKPATωP M ΟΘWΝ KAICAP ϹƐΒΑϹΤΟϹ (Commander Marcus Otho Caesar Augustus), laureate head of Otho to right</p><p>Rev.: Eagle with wreath in beak standing left on laurel branches, with wings spread; palm frond to left, crescent between legs, ЄTOY[C A] (date RY 1) in exergue.</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture courtesy from CNG eAuction 469:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1491209[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 8405942, member: 87809"]Nice coins of Otho, they definitely have character. I like those just imagining what stories they could tell us. Because I think that one has to have in one's collection at least one coin for each of the twelve Caesars, I have just one coin of Otho and it took me a while to get it:cool: Not sure about the mint. The tetradrachms of Otho have eagles of virtually identical style to those on Galba’s tetradrachms. The coinage with a ruler portrait on the obverse and an eagle and palm branch reverse often including other attributes (thunderbolt, club, animal thigh, etc.) ultimately derives from the late Seleucid silver coinage struck for Phoenicia and Coele Syria. On the Seleucid series (modeled after a Ptolemaic prototype), the region (Phoenicia) was indicated by the palm branch, while the symbols identified the mint of issue (i.e., ship’s ram at Tyre, trident at Berytus, etc.). AR Tetradrachm, Seleucis and Pieria, Antiochia ad Orontem or Berytos, January - April 69 AD, Regnal Year 1 = 68/69 AD RPC 4199; McAlee 316; Prieur 101; BMC 215; 14.697 g; 26 mm, 1 h Ob.: AYTOKPATωP M ΟΘWΝ KAICAP ϹƐΒΑϹΤΟϹ (Commander Marcus Otho Caesar Augustus), laureate head of Otho to right Rev.: Eagle with wreath in beak standing left on laurel branches, with wings spread; palm frond to left, crescent between legs, ЄTOY[C A] (date RY 1) in exergue. Picture courtesy from CNG eAuction 469: [ATTACH=full]1491209[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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