Watch List notes:

Otho. AD 69. AV Aureus (17mm, 6.81 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck 15 January-8 March. IMP M OTHO CAESAR AVG TR P, bare head right / PAX ORB IS TERRARVM, Pax, draped, standing left, holding olive branch in right hand and cradling caduceus in left arm. RIC I 3 (same rev. die as illustration); Muona Group 1, Type 5A, Portrait Type A; Calicó 524; BMCRE 1 (same dies); BN 2; Biaggi 270. Struck on a compact flan, hairlines, edge smoothed all the way around. Fine.


From the John L. Cowan Collection, purchased from Pegasi, 30 January 2014.