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Message:: [QUOTE="Heliodromus, post: 7957940, member: 120820"]Out of curiosity I searched for "GALBA countermark" on Coin Archives (without paying attention to issuing city), and there are quite a few that come up. While it's true that the GALBA stamp on coins of Nero do seem to be on his face (at least from those on CA), Galba also countermarked coins of other circulating emperors/empresses, and stamp placement seems to vary. Here's a selection: Nero [ATTACH=full]1379558[/ATTACH] Claudius [ATTACH=full]1379559[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1379560[/ATTACH] Divus Augustus [ATTACH=full]1379561[/ATTACH] Agrippina [ATTACH=full]1379562[/ATTACH] So the evidence for these GALBA stamps on Nero's face being a result of Damnatio Memoriae seems a bit unclear. Certainly Galba doesn't seem to have singled out coins of Nero for countermarking, nor does any particular care seem to have been taken to avoid facial stamp placement for other emperors. It seems the best we can say is that whoever was applying these countermarks seems to have deliberately chosen to place them on the face of Nero (whether per official instruction or not), although that placement doesn't seem to have had any official meaning since we also see stamps applied to the face of others such as Claudius and Agrippina as above.[/QUOTE]