Aureus - Galba ROMA RENASC, Roma and Victory

Galba's reign lasted seven months. The ROMA RENASC type — "Rome reborn" — was struck almost immediately after Nero's suicide in June 68 AD, when Galba was still marching toward the capital from Spain with the support of the Senate but before he had consolidated any real power. The slogan was a political gamble: Galba needed to position himself as restoration rather than usurpation, and the mint at Rome obliged with some of the most charged coinage of the entire Julio-Claudian collapse.

He was murdered in the Forum on January 15, 69 AD, making the total window for this type extremely narrow. RIC I 40 is among the more frequently cited aurei of his reign but remains genuinely scarce in any grade.