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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 2872098, member: 8959&quot;]This one is my first ever denarius of the Civil Wars, 68-69.</p><p>It is a recent purchase from Leu Numismatic-June 2017. I had been looking for a representative denarius of the Civil War which ensued upon Nero&#039;s death. This example fit the bill perfectly.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>Civil Wars, 68-69. Denarius</b> (Silver, 19 mm, 3.60 g, 7 h), uncertain mint in Spain, 68. <b>BON EVENT. </b></p><p>Obv: Diademed head of Bonus Eventus to right.</p><p>Rev: ROM RENASC Roma standing right, holding Victory in right hand and long eagle-tipped scepter in left.</p><p>BMC 9-10. Cohen 396. Martin 52. Nicolas 49. RIC 9.</p><p>Rare and unusually nice, an attractive example struck in good silver and without the usual porosity. Very fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cost: 1420 CHF</p><p><br /></p><p>The following description from acsearch describes much better than I ever could the background to this issue:</p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;&#039;Issued by Galba as governor of Spain, in the disordered period before the death of Nero and the proclamation of Galba as emperor.</p><p><br /></p><p>The civil wars at the end of Nero’s reign began with the revolt of the governor of Gallia Lugdunensis, Gaius Julius Vindex, probably around the beginning of March of AD 68. Vindex offered the leadership of the revolt to Servius Sulpicius Galba, then governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, who was hailed imperator by the Spanish legions at Carthago Nova in April of the same year. The title was cautiously refused, but Galba did declare himself the legatus of the senate and people of Rome. Just a month later, Galba’s confidence would be shaken by the crushing defeat of Vindex near Besançon by the general Lucius Verginius Rufus, governor of Germania Superior. By 9 June Nero was dead, having taken his own life. Galba began his march to Rome, and his brief reign was underway.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coinage, of course, was needed during these precarious months of revolt and without an emperor to strike in the name of (save for that in honor of the “model emperor” of Roman history, Augustus), the coinage was struck with messages suiting the political climate.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coinage under Vindex possesses a more aggressive air that underscores the militant nature of his revolt, while Galba’s tends to be more constitutional and optimistic in tone.&#039;&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>This issue thus belongs to the spanish series, and was struck by Galba before his proclamation as emperor.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]686678[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]686679[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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