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Galba
Aureus, 68-69 n. Chr. in Rom.
Vs.: IMP SER GALBA CAESAR AVG, belorbeerte und drapierte Büste des Galba nach rechts.
Rs.: HISPA NIA, drapierte Hispania mit Ähren und Mohnblume in der rechten und Rundschild und Speeren in der linken Hand nach links schreitend.
RIC² 192 (R3); Durkee coll.
Bild von: Numismatica Ars Classica

 Romanatic-ID: 2022
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Simon Wieland
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19:23:37, 08.02.2009
Note by Numismatica Ars Classica:
Certainly one of Galbas most elegant coin types, this aureus celebrates Spain, the land he had governed at the time of his insurrection against Nero. Hispania, the personification of Spain, is here shown as a woman of dual virtue: fertility of the land, and prowess in war. In some later representations she is accompanied by a rabbit – a symbol of the region. Both Stabo and Pliny wrote that rabbits were so plentiful in Spain that occasionally entire towns had to be moved because their communities were overrun and, on at least one occasion, a citys foundation had been dangerously undermined by burrows.