411, Lot: 389. Estimate $150. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Galba. AD 68-69. Æ As (28mm, 10.41 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck August-October AD 68. IMP SER SVLP GALBA CAES AVG TR P, laureate head right / LIBERTAS PVBLICA, S C across field, Libertas standing left, holding pileus and vindicta. RIC I 324/328 (for obv./rev.). VF, brown patina, a green deposit on reverse.

According to A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins by John Melville Jones, “Libertas”, the vindicta, which Libertas carries, was “the rod with which a slave was touched during the ceremony of manumission or liberation.”