Watch List notes:

C. SULPICIUS C.F. Galba, (106 B.C.), silver denarius, Rome Mint, (3.93 g), obv. laureate heads of the Dei Penates, cojoined to the left D.P.P. before, border of dots, rev. two soldiers swearing oath over sow, letter F above, C. SV LP(ligated) ICI. C. F, in exergue, border of dots, serrated edge, (S.189, C.312/1, BMC 1323, RSC Sulpicia 1 [p.90], RBW 1155). Toned, some original mint bloom, extremely fine and very scarce.

The moneyer is doubtless a son of C. Sulpicius Galba a moneyer about 120 B.C. and exiled in 109 B.C., and a brother of Ser. Sulpicius C.f.Galba on the consilium of Pompeius Strabo at Asculum. The coin alludes to Lavinium, the birthplace of this gens, where Aeneas is said to have brought the Penates from Troy. The RBW Collection example very similar realised 1200 SFr.