Mainstream Rome denarius
The principal Otho denarius market benchmark.
Otho · Observed / Range
Source location: Book 5, Chapter 2, PDF p. 13, Pricing Schedule
Certified / slabbed evidence
Certified XF and Choice XF material can move from the low thousands to roughly eight thousand five hundred dollars and above, with top AU material higher. This is market-level guidance, not an individually identified realized sale or grading-service-specific comparable.
Current fixed-price retail
Current professional retail commonly sits from the low thousands into roughly the mid-$5,000s for stronger material.
Raw auction
Evidence pending. Do not infer a price ladder.
Published schedule observations (not raw-auction tiers)
Entry: ~$500-$900; Typical: —; Choice: ~$4,000-$9,000+
Market / specialist note
Unlabelled raw observations are displayed as published wording, not assigned to invented auction tiers.
What affects this price?
Even within one ruler, denomination and type, grade, strike, centering, surfaces, style, patina, rarity, provenance, and tooling or smoothing can materially change value. These are not automatic numeric adjustments.