Denarius MACRIANA LIB LEG I, Libertas

This denarius belongs to the brief coinage struck by Lucius Clodius Macer, the governor of Africa who refused to recognize Galba following Nero's fall in 68 AD. Macer raised a second African legion — the Legio I Macriana Liberatrix, whose title this coin directly references — and cut off Rome's grain supply from Carthage, a move with immediate and serious consequences for the city's food security. He was dead within months, executed on Galba's orders before Galba himself was killed.