Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1110. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GALBA. 68-69 AD. AR Denarius (3.62 gm, 6h). Africa (Carthage?) mint. Struck circa June-October 68 AD. SER GALBA IMP AVG, laureate head right, globe at point of bust / VICT-ORIA P R, S C across field, Victory standing left on globe, holding wreath in right hand and palm in left hand. RIC I 520 var. (rev. legend break); H. Sutherland, "Supplementum Galbianum," QT 1984, -; cf. R. Mowat, "Le monnayage de Clodius Macer et les deniers de Galba marqués des lettres S C," RIN 1902 pg. 194, 331; BMCRE pg. ccxviii and 269 (Africa); PCR 447; Hunter pg. ciii; BN 270 var. (rev. legend break); cf. RSC 331. EF. An apparently unpublished variety of a very rare type. ($3000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.