Two Oustanding Portraits of Galba
Galba. AD 68-69. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.41 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa July AD 68-January 69. IMP SER GALBA CAESAR AVG P M, laureate head right / SALVS GEN HVMANI, Salus, draped, standing left, right foot on globe, cradling rudder in left arm and sacrificing from patera held in right hand over lighted and garlanded altar to left . RIC I 232; RSC 240. Toned with some luster, faint hairlines. EF. An expressive portrait.
