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Otros (AD 193-209) AE 27 - Geta839 viewsGeta, as Caesar, 193-209 AD. AE27 (9.55g). PO CEPT GETAC KAI, bare-headed and cuirassed bust right / ALEXAN-DR-OC AN-EO[...] OTPONW, Otreus embarking on prow of ship to left, right arm raised, head turned back, holding spear in left hand. Good VF, black patina with earthen encrustation around the devices, old scratch on head, adjustment marks on reverse. Simpson Coll.; Ex Brand Coll., pt. 7 (Sotheby's, 10/1984), lot 393; Von Aulock Coll.; Prowe Coll., pt. II (Egger Auktion XLI, 5/1914), lot 1809.
Otrus was one of the five cities of the Eucarpic plain and may have been named Otrus after an emigration from Otroea in Bythinia, which according to Strabo (XII, 566) was founded by Otreus, the king of Phrygia of the time of the Trojan War. 
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