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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Provincial| > |Roman Egypt| > SH60659
Otho, 15 January 69 - 17 April 69 A.D., Roman Provincial Egypt
|Roman| |Egypt|, |Otho,| |15| |January| |69| |-| |17| |April| |69| |A.D.,| |Roman| |Provincial| |Egypt|, RPC notes that the priestly simpulum symbol appears on some of each of the five Otho tetradrachm reverse types. The types with the symbol are rare. RPC lists 16 examples with simpulum and 69 without it.
SH60659. Billon tetradrachm, RPC I 5353, BMC Alexandria 212 var. (simpulum), VF, Alexandria mint, weight 12.316g, maximum diameter 25.7mm, die axis 0o, 69 A.D.; obverse AYTOK MAPK OΘOΣ KAIΣ ΣEB, laureate bust right, LA (year 1) before; reverse AΛEΞANΔPEA, draped bust of Alexandria right, wearing elephant skin headdress, simpulum before; rare; SOLD










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