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Denarius - Galba BONI EVENTVS, Bonus Eventus
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 68-69 |
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| Value | 1 Denarius |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (68-69) |
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Galba's reign lasted just seven months, from June 68 to January 69 AD, making his coinage among the rarest of the Julio-Claudian succession crisis. His mints — operating at Rome, Tarraco, and Narbo among others — produced heavily propagandistic issues designed to legitimize a man who had seized power through military revolt against Nero. BONI EVENTVS, invoking the god of good fortune and successful outcomes, was precisely the kind of wishful messaging a usurper needed. The Praetorian Guard murdered him in the Roman Forum before any of it took hold.