Tetradrachm of Otho, Emperor of Rome, Jan. Apr. 69 AD

Medium: Silver
Credit Line: Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Henri Seyrig
Accession Number: 2001.87.5079
Geography: Made in Roman Empire
Culture: Roman
Period: 1st century
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: head r.

Reverse Description: eagle with spread wings

Provenance

Henri Seyrig, to about 1940; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., from about 1940 to 2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Kevin Butcher and Matthew Ponting, The Metallurgy of Roman SIlver Coinage: From the Reform of Nero to the Reform of Trajan, First (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 512

Object copyright

Additional information

coins, money, tetradrachms

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