Lichfield District Council
Coin - Galba - Silver Denarius, 68 - 69 AD (Reverse) (18mm dia)
Location: Lichfield District Council
Accession number: 1983.2.8 rev.
A Roman silver coin known as a Denarius, produced during the reign of Emperor Galba, 68- 69 AD.
Galba was Roman Emperor for just 7 months in 68- 69AD, following the death of Emperor Nero. He was the first in the "Year of Four Emperors", a period of intense instability in which four different emperors held the title in the course of a year. The period ended with Vespasian rising to power.
The coin's obverse features a bust of Galba looking right, he is wearing a laurel wreath upon his head and there is a small globe below his neck.
The reverse is well worn but features the goddess Roma advancing, holding the goddess Victory and a transverse spear in either hand.
The Denarius was the standard silver Roman coin, in use throughout much of the period of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, being used from roughly 211 BC to 244 AD.
The coin was donated to Lichfield's collection by the South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society, and was likely to have been unearthed during their excavations at the Roman site of Letocetum, present day Wall, in 1961 - 63.
Coin - Galba - Silver Denarius, 68 - 69 AD (Reverse) (18mm dia)
Location: Lichfield District Council
Accession number: 1983.2.8 rev.
A Roman silver coin known as a Denarius, produced during the reign of Emperor Galba, 68- 69 AD.
Galba was Roman Emperor for just 7 months in 68- 69AD, following the death of Emperor Nero. He was the first in the "Year of Four Emperors", a period of intense instability in which four different emperors held the title in the course of a year. The period ended with Vespasian rising to power.
The coin's obverse features a bust of Galba looking right, he is wearing a laurel wreath upon his head and there is a small globe below his neck.
The reverse is well worn but features the goddess Roma advancing, holding the goddess Victory and a transverse spear in either hand.
The Denarius was the standard silver Roman coin, in use throughout much of the period of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, being used from roughly 211 BC to 244 AD.
The coin was donated to Lichfield's collection by the South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society, and was likely to have been unearthed during their excavations at the Roman site of Letocetum, present day Wall, in 1961 - 63.