Watch List notes:

Galba. AD 68-69. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.14 g, 6h). Posthumous issue. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck under Vespasian, AD 70-71. IMP GALBA CAESAR AVG P P, laureate head right, globe at point of neck / FORTVNA AVG, Fortuna, draped, standing left, holding rudder in right hand and cornucopia in left. RIC I 127 (same dies as illustration); Calicó 476 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 241 (same dies); BN –; Adda –; Biaggi –; Jameson –; Mazzini –. Surface marks, reverse weakly struck, shallow edge test cut. VF. RIC, Calicó, and BMCRE use the same coin photograph of the example in the British Museum, which was purchased from the Montagu Collection (Rollin & Feuardent, 13 April 1896), lot 169. An extremely rare type, this is possibly the second recorded specimen, and the only one in private hands.

Ex Berk BBS 207 (13 June 2019), lot 13; Kastner 6 (26 November 1974), lot 267.