Impressive Portrait of Galba

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Galba. AD 68-69. Æ Sestertius (36.5mm, 26.84 g, 7h). Rome mint, 3rd officina. Struck circa October AD 68. SER • GALBA • IMP • CAESAR • AVG • TR P, laureate and draped bust right / LIBERTAS PVBLICA, S C across field, Libertas, draped, standing left, holding pileus in right hand and vindicta in left. RIC I 388; ACG – (A148/P– [unlisted rev. die]); BMCRE 69-70; BN 194. Brown patina, minor roughness. Good VF. Well centered on a broad medallic flan.

Ex Meander Collection; Künker 280 (26 September 2016), lot 534; G. Hirsch 111 (12 June 1978), lot 2044.