Galba As: The Myth, The Man, The Model? - Page 2

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january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5177 Posts	Posted 02/27/2022 1:16 pm Quote: The obverse legend is IMP SER GALBA CAESAR AVG, so with a right-facing bust it's either RIC 186 or 189. The only difference between those is that Galba is draped in 189, which is a bit difficult to tell. I would guess RIC 189 as there seems to be some drapery to the right. That does sound correct. There's apparently a lot of portrait variants and I hadn't realized (at least until your comment) how exactly they are distributed into RIC 186 or 189. (I assumed it had to do with some kind of face style.) It does look like there's probably some drapery, but I'm not very confident either. Do you think it's worth at least as much as I paid? And if yes, how much is it worth? My initial impression from looking prices up was that finding any Galba coin for anywhere near that cheap is extremely unlikely, and then it would probably be copper. But I wasn't able to find a lot of (any, really) online examples with a known price in anywhere near such a low grade. Report this Post to the Staff
circusmax120 Valued Member United States 319 Posts	Posted 02/27/2022 4:39 pm January1, my Galba is an AE As and is 28mm. Quite a bit larger than your silver. The portrait is good, but as you can see...isn't great on detail. If I remember correctly, I paid nearly $200 for it. That was the top of my spending limit. I looked at a lot of Galba's before settling on the coin I acquired. All are expensive. Some are astronomical! Here are a few examples of coins like the one you purchased. This one is similar in wear...and is running in the $140 range. Here is a silver with better detail...running about $350. And this denarius is clocked at going over 800?! So...$54...ain't bad! Report this Post to the Staff
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