438, Lot: 478. Estimate $500. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Galba. AD 68-69. Æ Sestertius (35.5mm, 25.68 g, 6h). Rome mint, 5th officina. Struck circa August-October AD 68. Laureate and draped bust right / Libertas standing left, holding pileus and cradling vindicta. RIC I 309; ACG 328 (A109/P –[unlisted rev. die). VF, brown surfaces, some roughness and metal flaws.

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.”