Triton XVI, Lot: 1053. Estimate $1000. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Galba. AD 68-69. Æ As (29mm, 10.81 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa June-August AD 68. IMP SER GALBA AVG TR P, laureate head right / CER ES AVGVSTA, S C in exergure, Ceres seated left on throne with high, arched back, holding grain ear and poppy in right hand and cradling long caduceus in left arm. RIC I 291 var. (two grain ears); ACG -; BMCRE 140 note; cf. BN 155-156; Ars Classica XII, 2784 (same obv. die). VF, dusty black-green patina, some roughness. Possibly the second known example of this variety.