Galba. AD 68-69. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.64 g, 6h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Tarraco?). Struck circa April-late AD 68. GALBA IMP, laureate head left, globe at point of neck / LIBERTAS PVBLICA, Libertas, draped, standing left, holding pileus in right hand and vindicta in left. RIC I 22; Calicó 486 (this coin illustrated); BMCRE –; BN –; Hunter 65; Biaggi 260 (this coin). Scattered marks, some digs on the reverse. Good VF. Very rare. Fantastic portrait.
From the Conti Collection. Ex Cabinet of a Connoisseur (Dix Noonan Webb A10, 22 June 2011), lot 1027; Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part II, Sotheby's New York, 21 June 1990), lot 691; Leo Biaggi de Blasys (1906-1979) Collection, 260.