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As - Galba SECVRITAS ROMANI S C, Securitas
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 68-69 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, laureate bust of Emperor Galba facing right, with a small globe positioned at the base of the neck truncation, a characteristic iconographic detail of his coinage. The portrait renders Galba as an elderly, jowled figure in the Roman imperial tradition, with a wreath of laurel leaves clearly delineated around the head. A circular legend in Latin runs along the inner border of the dotted bead-and-reel rim. The flan is broad and slightly irregular, typical of struck bronze aes coinage of the Year of the Four Emperors period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The personification of Securitas (Security) depicted as a draped female figure seated left upon a high-backed throne, her right hand raised to rest against her head in a pose of relaxed repose, and her left arm resting upon the arm of the throne. Before her stands a lighted altar with a torch beside it, symbolising the security and stability of Roman rule. The reverse legend SECVRITAS ROMANI arcs around the upper field, with the senatorial authority mark S C (Senatus Consultum) in the lower field. The composition follows the standard iconographic programme established for senatorial bronze coinage of the Julio-Claudian and early Flavian periods. |
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