439, Lot: 496. Estimate $200. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Galba. AD 68-69. Æ Sestertius (37mm, 25.13 g, 6h). Rome mint, 2nd officina. Struck circa October AD 68. Laureate head right / Libertas standing left, holding pileus and cradling vindicta. RIC I 347; ACG – (A75/P134). Fine, tan patina, porosity, areas of smoothing and corrosion.

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