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ID number: BIRBI-R0992 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Galba; Rome Denomination: Dupondius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: AD 68 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 2.80 Weight (g): 14.38 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Haines 3948. A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd, 1962 |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Galba, laureate, draped l. Reverse S - C to l. and r., Pax draped standing l. holding a branch in her r. hand and a caduceus in her l. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP SER SVLPIC GALBA CAES AVG TR P (Emperor Servius Sulpicius Galba Caesar Augustus, Tribune of the People) Reverse: PAX AVGVST (Peace of the Augustus).
Bibliography: cf. RIC I 2nd ed. 322
Notes: Broadly same type as RIC 322, but reverse inscription AVGVST, not AVGVSTA.
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