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Galba. AD 68-69. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.41 g, 7h). Uncertain mint in Gaul (Narbo?). Struck circa April-late autumn AD 68. Laureate head right / Concordia standing left, holding branch and cornucopia. RIC I 120; RSC 38. Deeply toned, scratches under tone, edge filed. Good VF. Expressive portrait.
From the Meander Collection. Ex Leu 30 (28 April 1982), lot 316.
Though reigning scarcely seven months, Servius Sulpicius Galba has the honor of inspiring Rome’s portrait artists to reach heights never again equaled or surpassed. Achieving the throne at age 70, Galba was a wizened Roman aristocrat whose sagging, craggy countenance could not have been more different than that of his predecessor, the bloated and dissolute Nero. Indeed, Galba seems to have deliberately promoted himself as a steely martinet who would restore Rome to proper Republican austerity.
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