Sestertius - Galba HONOS ET VIRTVS S C, Honos and Virtus

Galba's reign lasted just seven months, from June 68 to January 69 AD, making his bronze coinage among the most compressed imperial issues of the first century. The HONOS ET VIRTVS type was a deliberate political statement — Galba positioned himself as a restorer of traditional Roman virtue after Nero's excesses, invoking Honor and Virtue to legitimize a succession that had no dynastic foundation whatsoever. He was, bluntly, a general who took power by force and needed the coinage to say otherwise.

RIC I#476 was struck at Rome. Galba was dead before most of these sestertii had left the treasury.