Aureus - Galba VIRTVS; Virtus

Features

Issuer RomeRoman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD)
Emperor Galba (Servius Sulpicius Galba) (68-69)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 68-69
Value 1 Aureus = 25 Denarii
Currency Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215)
Composition Gold
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
244801
References RIC I# 51
Harold Mattingly, Edward Allen Sydenham, Carol Humphrey Vivian Sutherland, Robert A. G. Carson; 1984. The Roman Imperial Coinage / Volume 1. Augustus – Vitellius (31 BC–AD 69) (1923 revised edition). Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Head of Galba, laureate, left; globe at point of neck

Script: Latin

Lettering: SERVIVS GALBA IMPERATOR

Translation:
Servius Galba Imperator
Servio Galba, supreme commander (Imperator).

Reverse

Virtus, wearing tunic and cuirass, standing left, holding Victory on globe In right hand and parazonium in left

Script: Latin

Lettering: VIRTVS

Translation:
Virtus
Virtue.

Mint

Tarraco, Hispania, modern-day Tarragona, Spain

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (68-69) 

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