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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2180291, member: 57495&quot;]Here&#039;s the Otho denarius of the collection.&nbsp; I think it has been worked to make it more round, and a series of vertical cuts running all around the edge further indicate that the coin has spent some time as jewelry (see picture below). </p><p><br /></p><p>That said, I&#039;m glad that the disfigurement wasn&#039;t worse, and for my money it remains a nice coin... certainly so for my collection!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]422055[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]422056[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>OTHO</b></p><p>AR Denarius</p><p>3.19g, 17.6mm</p><p>Rome mint, 15 Jan to mid-April 69</p><p>RIC I (second edition) Otho 8</p><p>O: IMP M OTHO CAESAR AVG TR P, bare head right.</p><p>R: SECVRITAS P R, Securitas, draped, standing left, holding wreath in right hand and sceptre in left</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again to [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] for suggesting that I get the coin checked out by Jyrki Muona.&nbsp; Prof Muona has published a die analysis based on 1000 coins of Otho from the Rome mint.&nbsp; He was kind enough to look at the pictures I sent him and has given this coin the all-clear.&nbsp; He also found a reverse die match to a coin in his study, with the obverse die close enough to that coin&#039;s that he believes it was cut by the same engraver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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