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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 7519201, member: 101855"]Wow! Nothing like starting with one of the tough ones! I bought this Otho denarius fairly early in the game too. Here is my piece. The coin was "liberated" from an NGC Ch. VF slab with a 4/5 strike and 5/5 surface. The label was included with the flip.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1298776[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Another event that probably made Otho even angrier with Nero after the "Roman fiddler" stole his wife, was what happened to her after she married him. One day she apparently angered Nero, and he kicked her in the stomach while she was pregnant. She died.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am fairly well along on my "one coin per emperor" collection. I am missing a few of the rulers between Julius Caesar and Constantine the Great who were in office long enough "to have a cup of coffee."</p><p><br /></p><p>The biggest name I'm missing is Pertinax, who ruled for three months in 193. The year 193 marked another of those periods of Roman political instability. There were five men in the mix to be the next emperor. One of them, Didius Julianus, paid a bribe to become emperor. All it got him was a quick death.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pertinax coins are around, but most of them are low grade, and it's hard to find one with all of lettering that is readable. I am going to have to decide if I am going to go beyond Constantine I.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 7519201, member: 101855"]Wow! Nothing like starting with one of the tough ones! I bought this Otho denarius fairly early in the game too. Here is my piece. The coin was "liberated" from an NGC Ch. VF slab with a 4/5 strike and 5/5 surface. The label was included with the flip. [ATTACH=full]1298776[/ATTACH] Another event that probably made Otho even angrier with Nero after the "Roman fiddler" stole his wife, was what happened to her after she married him. One day she apparently angered Nero, and he kicked her in the stomach while she was pregnant. She died. I am fairly well along on my "one coin per emperor" collection. I am missing a few of the rulers between Julius Caesar and Constantine the Great who were in office long enough "to have a cup of coffee." The biggest name I'm missing is Pertinax, who ruled for three months in 193. The year 193 marked another of those periods of Roman political instability. There were five men in the mix to be the next emperor. One of them, Didius Julianus, paid a bribe to become emperor. All it got him was a quick death. Pertinax coins are around, but most of them are low grade, and it's hard to find one with all of lettering that is readable. I am going to have to decide if I am going to go beyond Constantine I.[/QUOTE]
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