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Auction 87  14-15 Dec 2020
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Lot 515

Starting price: 1500 GBP
Price realized: 4900 GBP
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Galba (68-69), Sestertius, Rome, December AD 68; AE (g 25,14; mm 34; h 5); SER SVLPI GALBA IMP CAESAR AVG P M TR P, laureate and draped bust l., Rv. Galba, in military dress, standing r. on podium, accompanied by praetorian prefect behind him, addressing two helmeted soldiers, each with shields and one with spear, a horse facing between them. Before podium, two tunicate cursores, and in background, vexillum, signum and aquila; in ex. ADLOCVTIO / S C. RIC 468.
Extremely rare. Naturalistic portrait struck on a full flan; brown tone with spots of cuprite deposits, somewhat smoothed, anyway about extremely fine.
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