Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1109. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GALBA. 68-69 AD. Æ Sestertius (26.24 gm, 7h). Rome mint. Struck October 68 AD. SER GALBA IMP CAESAR AVG TR P, laureate head left / SALVS AVGVSTA, S C in exergue, Salus seated left on ornate stool, holding patera in extended right hand and long sceptre in left hand. RIC I 396 var. (AVG P M TR P); ACG - (A84/P88; unlisted die combination); BMCRE pg. 328, † note; BN 200 var. (laureate head right); Cohen 227 var. (same). Good VF, mottled red and green patina with brown undertones, some smoothing in fields. ($3000)

Ex Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 486.