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                 |  | Lot 149. Galba AE Sestertius, Honos and Virtus reverse
    eAuction #56, Lot 149. Estimate: CHF 375.00
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              (Sunday, June 18th, 19:49:40 CEST) Current time: Friday, October 31st, 21:01:43 CET
 
  
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            | Price realised: | CHF 380.00 (4 bids) Approx. EUR 409.29 / USD 473.59 / GBP 360.40
 
  
 
              
                Bid history  
                  
                    | Amount | Bidder | Date |  
                                            | CHF 380.00 | Bidder 4 * | 2017-06-18, 19:49:28 |  
                                            | CHF 360.00 | Bidder 3 * | 2017-06-18, 18:13:35 |  
                                            | CHF 340.00 | Bidder 2 * | 2017-06-18, 19:48:57 |  
                                            | CHF 300.00 | Bidder 1 * | 2017-06-04, 11:28:22 |   * User names of other bidders are replaced by Bidder 1, 2, and so on. |  
            | High bidder: | Bidder 4 |  |  
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 Galba (68-69 AD). AE Sestertius (34-35 mm, 26.22 g), Rome, December 68.
 Obv. SER SVLPI GALBA IMP CAESAR AVG TR P,  Laureate head right.
 Rev. HONOS ET VIRTVS,  Honos, bare from the waist up, standing right, 
holding long vertical sceptre in right hand and cornucopiae in left, facing 
Virtus, in military attire, standing left, holding parazonium in right hand 
and vertical spear in left, right foot on boar’s head; in exergue, S C.
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89; BMC 256;  RIC 475.
 
 Very rare. Almost very fine.
 
 Ex Gitbud & Naumann Auction 23 (2014), Nr. 728 (EUR 400 + fees).
 
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