Ha ha, Mtooth, Im still alive..The season starts in about a month, lazy long hot summer..Check inbox messages..
well someone has to post a coin to make this thread legit... AE23, Syria, Antioch Mint Obverse: [IMP SER GALBA] CAE AVG, laureate head right. Reverse: Large SC within laurel wreath of eight leaves, fastened at top with pellet, between inner circle and outer dotted border. References: RPC I 4315 var (obverse legend), McAlee 314 (same dies) Size: 23mm, 8.99g
Here's my Galba. Denarius of Galba, Obverse, IMP SER GALBA CAESAR AVG P M, “Emperor Servius Galba, Caesar Augustus, Pontifex Maximus” (highest priest in Roman religion) Reverse, DIVA AVCVSTA, “Goddess Augusta,” Livia standing. Sear variety # 2102 Livia Drusilla (a.k.a. Julia Augusta 58-59 BC - 29 AD) was the wife to Caesar Augustus and the mother of Tiberius. She married Augustus after she had Tiberius and divorced her husband. She was deified after her death. DIVA - Latin for female deity. I read in a book about the life Nero that Galba had a very bad hernia. I don't how the author knew that. Back in those days there wasn't much they could do about it except bind you up and hope for the best. Galba shortchanged people after his supporters promised to pay them before he became emperor. Those who felt slighted, took care of his hernia worries in an unpleasant manner.
