8.2. GALBA and OTHO Countermarks
This section covers
"GALBA", "GALKAI", "GAL CA", "IMPGA",
"IMPOTHO", "IMPVESP"
"GALBA", "GAL KAI", and
"GAL CA"
Countermarks from Galba are known in latin and greek letters on regular
roman coins, also on roman provincial coins.
"GALBA" in latin letters (countermarkMartini Pangerl Collection 86) on regular coin of Drusus senior
another example
"GALBA" in Latin
Letters on provincial coins (Perinthos).
Coins like the one below are in the grey zone between official coins
(so
called Thrakian mint) and provincial coins of the balkan region
"GALBA" in Greek
Letters (countermark Martini
Pangerl Collection 92). This countermark occurs also on Provincial
coins
and is listed by Howgego as GIC 526. Coins like the one below are in
the
grey zone between official coins (so called Thrakian mint) and
provincial
coins of the balkan region
"GAL KAI" in Greek
Letters (countermark Martini
Pangerl Collection 93) below on Roman Nero As (Balkan mint ?) and two
examples
on Provincial coins from the Balkan . This countermark is
listed
by Howgego as GIC 527.
Coins like the one below are in the grey zone between official coins
(so called Balkan / Thrakian mint) and provincial coins of the balkan
region
"GAL.CA"
in Latin Letters
on Nero "DECURSIO" Sesterti (from Balkan mint ?)
GALBA countermark
above cancelled NERCRPP
countermark,
also head left countermark
OTHO
"IMP
OTHO" on Eastern
provincial coin of Nero, below also examples of IMP
GA, and IMP VESP
for Galba and Vespasianus n the same host coins.
IMP.GAL, IMP OTHO, and to the right IMP VESP, on
Nero coins
from phoenicia