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164, Lot: 140. Estimate $200.
Sold for $290. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Galba. AD 68-69. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.38 g). Rome mint. Bare head right / Livia standing left, holding patera and scepter. RIC I 224; BMCRE 12; RSC 58. Fine, lightly toned, well centered on a nice flan.



Suetonius 5.2: He showed marked respect to Livia Augusta, to whose favor he owed great influence during her lifetime and by whose last will he almost became a rich man; for he had the largest bequest among her legatees, one of fifty million sesterces. But because the sum was designated in figures and not written out in words, Tiberius, who was her heir, reduced the bequest to five hundred thousand, and Galba never received even that.

The line of the Julio-Claudian emperors had died out with Nero, but the new emperor Galba still wished to demonstrate continuity with the dynasty that had ruled for the last century, via his close friendship with Livia.