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As - Galba CERES AVGVSTA S C, Ceres
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint |
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| Year | 68-69 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare laureate head of Emperor Galba facing right, rendered in the characteristic late Julio-Claudian portrait style with aged, strongly modelled facial features. The legend encircles the effigy along the periphery of the flan, reading SER GALBA IMP CAES AVG TR P. The coin exhibits a heavily patinated green surface with areas of bronze visible beneath, consistent with prolonged burial. The flan is irregular in shape, typical of hand-struck Roman aes coinage of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Galba's reign lasted just seven months, from June 68 to January 69 AD, and his bronze coinage reflects the administrative scramble of a man who seized power at 70 years old and never fully consolidated it. The Ceres type was a deliberate appeal to grain supply and popular welfare — precisely the promises Galba failed to keep, as his notorious fiscal austerity, including refusal to pay the donatives pledged to the Rhine legions, directly precipitated the revolt that ended with his murder near the Lacus Curtius.