Very nice coins! I dont have a Otho yet but a similar Valerian II. example: Antoninian - Valerian II. Caesar - PRINC IVVENTVTIS - Antioch mint
very nice additions...Otho looks good!..bet that cost a pretty penny ..my Otho's chipped/broke but my 1st one was a phony so i'm elated to have it! ^^one like it(Victoria Othonis reverse) complete & decent now would run in excess of $1500.00..i'll have to show my Valerian ll with a bronze of Valerian l.. Otho, 16mm, 2.40gms Valerian ll, 21mm 2.96gms
Apart from the Gaius and Lucius denarii designating them as PRINC IVVENT, that is first among the youth. I only have one coin with IVVENTVS, a Claudius II Gothicus Antoninianus, which still has a nice silvering. On Imperial coins, Iuventas and Spes are often associated with the reigning Caesar. She was especially the goddess of young men who had just come of age. A supplication to Iuventas and Spes marked the anniversary of Augustus' coming of age and Iuventas was among the many Virtues on the coinage of Antoninus Pius. Antiochia ad Orontem, 268 - 270 AD Mintmark: -/-//Δ, Emission 5 c 19.6 x 21.5 mm; 4.120 g RIC V Antioch 213; Hunter 77; Ob.: IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG radiate and draped bust right. Rev.: IVVENTVS AVG Hercules standing facing, head left, holding club set on ground in r. hand and apple or globe in l. hand, lion-skin draped over left arm; In ex. Δ Picture courtesy of Victor’s Imperial Coins
It does look a witch on a broom, but below is what I have in my catalog VALERIAN II AR Antoninianus OBVERSE: DIVO VALERIANO CAES - Radiate, draped bust right. REVERSE: CONSACRATIO - Valerian II riding eagle right, upwards Struck at Rome, 257-58 AD 3.2g, 23mm RIC 9, S 3071
