Need help with this Galba

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REALLY cool @Orfew ! Nice nice nice! Great eye with this gorgeous coin. AND, the rarety makes it fun to have!

LOL,

No, I do NOT feel sorry for you! Great coins are a sacrifice that you willingly paid!

Mine does NOT have a Bust-Globe, but Victory surfing the globe on the reverse... And, I seem to gravitate to Quinarii which seem a bit harder to find.


RI GALBA AR Quinarius Lugdunum mint laureate r Victory globe stdng left 15mm 1.5g SCARCE

 

This coin is published. Many thanks to Dr. Jyki Muona for providing the reference. It is: Sutherland." Supplementum Galbianum", published in Quadreni Ticinesi XIII, 1984. My coin is RIC 48a. A quick online search has shown no others. I however know of 2 others. One is in the Oxford collection. Another was sold by Gorny and Mosch in a 2004 auction.

Dr. Muona suggested the the ANS might have the journal. I contacted the librarian and they are going to send me a copy of the article for a nominal fee. I know the article has 2 plates. I hope there is a picture of the Oxford example, the fourth example I know of.

Here is picture of the lot that sold before mine before mine. Notice there is no globe terminus. It is a different mint, probably Narbo.

 

I received the pdf today. Alas, there is no photo of the coin. However, I can now update my reference for the coin.

Galba, AD 68-69. Denarius, Spain (Tarraco ?), 68. AR 3.25 g.

Obv: GALBA - IMPERTOR Laureate head r., globe at point of bust.

Rev. VIRTVS Virtus, wearing short tunica, standing l., holding parazonium with her l. hand, on her outstretched r. hand Victoria with palm branch and wreath.

RIC 48a (R3) Supplementum Galbianum, Quaderni Ticinesi XII Numismatica E Antichita Classiche 1984. Cf. BMC 341, 194v.; BN III, 36, 34v.; C. 210; RIC 30var. (all with IMP on obv.).
Very rare variant. Toned. Small chips on flan. Almost very fine
Provenance: Auction UBS, Zurich 49 (2000), 365.

Ex: “The Galba Collection”

Hess Divo Auction 333, Lot 100 November 30, 2017

Hess Divo Auction 334 Lot 107 May 29, 2018


From the article:

 

A great example @Orfew congrats

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Thanks @Cucumbor your comments are appreciated.

Here is a new shot of the coin. It arrived about 30 minutes ago. I am very happy with this coin.

 

Don't take this that I am condemning your new coin @Orfew, because I don't know enough about Spanish minted coins. However, that portrait looks modern to me.

 

Thanks for your concern @Bing but I am relatively certain it is correct. Dr Jyki Muona has seen the coin and has not expressed doubt. It was in a famous collection called "The Galba collection" put together by a Galba specialist, and it was offered by a large Swiss auction house which also offers a guarantee of authenticity.

It also happens to look like other Spanish denarii. The portraits on these are always a bit strange. The denarii of Galba have an amazing diversity considering the limited minting time.

Here are a few examples of the strange portraits of Galba.

 

A few more...



And one of my own...

 

Nice examples above.

Here is more humble example (but not my pictures). Despite Galba's ruling for only nine months, his image quickly spread throughout the Empire, including Alexandria, Egypt.





Looking at Wildwinds.com, I was interested to see that this short-reigned Emperor survived for a "year two" issue:

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/galba/milne_333.jpg

 

It's a hobby, it's supposed to be fun! When it stops being fun, sell.

 

In my opinion there is nothing quite like chasing down a rare coin in a bunch of obscure references. It is almost as exciting as owning the coin.