421, Lot: 610. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Galba. AD 68-69. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 27.04 g, 6h). Rome mint, 3rd officina. Struck circa October AD 68. SER GΛLBΛ IMP • CΛ ESΛR ΛVG TR P, laureate head right / LIBERTAS PVBLICA, S C across field, Libertas standing left, holding pileus and vindicta. RIC I 387. In NGC encapsulation, 4277886-001, graded VF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5, brown surfaces.

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.”