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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2789771, member: 19463&quot;]That flan is the result of blanks poured in an open top mold (perhaps stone?).&nbsp; The taper allows them the be removed more easily.&nbsp; These are standard for Alexandrian bronzes as well.&nbsp; I do not know why they made the billon blanks in a different way. Perhaps closed molds allowed better weight control??? </p><p><br /></p><p>The problem I have always seen with the Antioch and Alexandria Otho issues is that he looks nothing like the effeminate, pudgy wig wearing Roman Otho.&nbsp; The picture history has painted of the man is not consistent with the heroic portrait on these bronzes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have a bronze but below is a billon tetradrachm of Antioch.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think the tetradrachm portraits match the bronzes, the denarii, the Alexandrians or anything else.&nbsp; What did Otho look like?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]647645[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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