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The Collection of Roman Republican Coins of a Student and his Mentor Part III

Marcus Antonius. Aureus, mint moving with M. Antony 32-31, AV 8.02 g. ANT·AVG Galley r. with sceptre tied with fillet on prow; below, III VIR·R P·C. Rev. Aquila between two standards; in field, LEG – XIII. Babelon Antonia –, cf. 121 (denarius). C –, cf. 42 (denarius). Bahrfeldt –. Sydenham –, cf. 1232a (denarius). Sear Imperators 366 (this coin). Calicó 96 (this coin). RBW –. Crawford 544/5 (this coin cited).
Apparently unique. A coin of great importance and fascination,
struck on a very broad flan and very fine
Ex Glendining's sale19 July, 1950, Platt Hall I, 666. From the Collection of C.H. Hersh.Marc Antony struck his "legionary" coinage in vast quantities as he and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII prepared for war with Octavian. In the end, their efforts proved futile: Antony and Cleopatra fled the battle at Actium on September 2, 31 B.C. once they realized they would not win the day. Antony fled back to Alexandria, where he subsequently committed suicide and Cleopatra narrowly escaped being the trophy of Octavian's triumph when she took her own life by the bite of a poisonous asp.Twenty-three legions are named in Antony's "legionary" coinage, and though he struck untold millions of debased denarii, the same cannot be said of his high-purity aurei. Including this formerly unrecorded piece, aurei are recorded for only seven of the numbered legions as well as for the named units of the cohortes speculatorum and the cohorts praetoriae. We might presume aurei were struck as companions to each denarius issue, but that a low survival rare has left us with an incomplete record.