Galba, AE as,  Rome mint. Struck circa late summer 68 AD.

Obverse: IMP SER SVLP GALBA - CAES AVG TRP,  laureate head right.
Reverse: LIBERTAS - PVBLICA S-C,  Libertas standing left, holding pileus
and sceptre.
BMC 144; Cohen 129.

Auction January, 2006. Hammer price: 90 EUR.

Curtis Clay: Paris has two examples, nos. 159-60 in Giard's catalogue,
both described as asses, both from different dies than this specimen.


Contributed by Yuri Kabanov, February, 2006.


[Note: RIC 328 / Cohen 128 is bare headed, rated Rare, and has a footnote "Confirmation needed."]