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126, Lot: 288. Estimate $100.
Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GALBA. 68-69 AD. Two rectangular countermarks with GALBA stamped on a Claudius Æ Sestertius (37mm, 27.47 g, 7h). Laureate head of Claudius right / Spes advancing left, holding flower and hem of skirt. For coin: cf. RIC I 99 and 115; for countermark: cf. D.W. MacDowall, "Two Roman Countermarks of AD 68," NumChron 1960, p. 106ff. for commentary. One countermark appears to be struck over another; perhaps [NER] C P P. Coin fair, reverse tooled, countermarks fine, tooled. Brown patina, a few pits. Rare.

The countermarks applied to this coin appear to be related to the GALBA and GAL.KAI countermarks applied at Perinthus during Galba's reign, mostly to coins of Nero that defaced the portrait of that tyrant.