427, Lot: 436. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Galba. AD 68-69. Æ As (28mm, 9.87 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck circa August-October AD 68. Laureate head right / Libertas standing left, holding pileus and vindicta. RIC I 328 var. (bare head). Near VF, brown surfaces.

From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor.

According to A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins by John Melville Jones, the vindicta which Libertas carries was “the rod with which a slave was touched during the ceremony of manumission or liberation.”