Laureate head of Galba right on obverse. Salus standing left on reverse, right foot on globe, holding rudder and sacrificing from patera over lighted and garlanded altar.

Servius Sulpicius Galba, governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, was hailed emperor in the spring of AD 68 after the fall of Nero, but his brief and unpopular reign ended with his murder in the Forum on 15 January AD 69.

Salus, the personification of public welfare and safety, embodied the regime's promise of restored stability after the upheavals that had ended the Julio-Claudian line, the rudder and globe asserting steady guidance over the world.

Lightly toned with an imposing portrait. Pleasingly struck.

Toned, with some luster, faint hairlines.

Iridescent tone, some faint hairlines, and a trace of die rust on obverse.


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Denarius of GalbaRIC I 232

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