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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24739572, member: 26430&quot;]<font size="5">Aha -- this actually seems quite rare and special! If you try to find a Galba Denarius with Pax reverse, it won&#039;t be easy. There isn&#039;t one in RIC or the others I just quickly glanced at. </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">(</font><a href="https://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=galba+pax" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=galba+pax" rel="nofollow"><font size="5">Here are the OCRE results for Galba Pax</font></a><font size="5">.) </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">This type was struck as an Aureus, also very rare: </font></p><blockquote><ul> <li><font size="5"><a href="https://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).gal.129" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).gal.129" rel="nofollow">RIC I (second edition) Galba 129</a>;</font></li> <li><font size="5"><a href="https://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).gal.123" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).gal.123" rel="nofollow">RIC 123</a> </font><ul> <li><font size="5">not pictured on OCRE, but see <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3092028" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3092028" rel="nofollow">CNG 102 (18 May 2016), 881</a>: <br /> &quot;RIC I 123; Lyon –; Calicó 465; BMCRE –; BN –; Biaggi –.&quot; <br /> &quot;The second known example of this extremely rare aureus. The only other example known was from the De Quelen Collection (Rollin et Feuardent, 14 May 1888), lot 862, which is the Calicó plate coin.&quot;</font></li> </ul></li> </ul></blockquote><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Your coin appears to be a double-die-match to an unpublished Denarius specimen sold by <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=96254" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=96254" rel="nofollow">CNG at e-Auction 164, lot 167</a>. (Don&#039;t get too excited about the price; theirs, worn but unbroken, hammered at $263 USD + fees, in 2006 dollars.)</font></p><p><font size="5">(<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=346837" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=346837" rel="nofollow">ACSearch record</a>.)</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/1540167.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </font></p><blockquote><p><font size="5">Galba. AD 68-69. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.36 g). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. IMP GALBA CAESAR AVG P P, Laureate bust right, globe at point of bust / PAX AVG, Pax standing left, holding branch and shield. RIC I -; BMCRE -;BN -; RSC -. Good Fine, nice flan, legends fully legible. Apparently unrecorded as a denarius, but the type is known as an aureus (RIC 129).</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p></blockquote><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>Coin Tax:</b></font></p><p><font size="5">Unfortunately I don&#039;t have a partial Galba Denarius to show. But I do have a partial denarius of his successor, Otho, to show (yet again!):</font></p><p><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1582629[/ATTACH]</font></p><p><font size="5">(RIC 8; Muona Coll. M16, this coin)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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