Sestertius - Galba and Livia AVGVSTA S C

Galba's brief reign — roughly seven months between June 68 and January 69 AD — produced a politically calculated coinage that invoked Livia's memory with deliberate intent. By associating himself with the deified wife of Augustus, Galba was reaching backward across nearly five decades to claim Julio-Claudian legitimacy he had no blood right to. It was a thin argument, and the Praetorian Guard settled the matter on the Palatine Hill before it could be tested further.

RIC I 334 is among the scarcer sestertius types of this reign, a consequence of its extreme brevity rather than any minting interruption.