Watch List notes:

Otho. AD 69. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.49 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck 15 January–8 March. IMP M OTHO CΛESAR AVG TR P, bare head right / SECVR I TAS P R, Securitas, draped, standing left, holding wreath in right hand and cradling scepter in left. RIC I 8; Muona Group 1, Type 4B, Portrait Type A; RSC 17; BMCRE 17-8; BN 10. Iridescent tone. Near EF. Portrait of artistic merit.


From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXVI (Summer 2001), no. 93; Tkalec (19 February 2001), lot 263 (hammer CHF 6000); Numismatica Ars Classica 10 (9 April 1997), lot 594.