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    EGYPT, Alexandria.  Galba

    year 2, CE 68/9

    tetradrachm

    Obv:  ΣEPOVIΓAΛBAAVTOKAIΣΣEBA; laureate head right; LB 

    Rev: Bust of Roma right, with shield and spear forward; PΩMH

    Ref:  Emmett 174(2) R1, Milne 325

    Purchased from Musa Numismatic Art at WFOM, Chicago 2014

     

    Translation of legend abbreviations:

    ΣEPOVI(OΣ)  ΓAΛBA  AVTO(KPATΩP)  KAIΣ(AP)  ΣEBA(ΣTOΣ)

    Servius Galba Imperator Caesar Augustus

    LB

    year 2

    PΩMH

    Roma