Fulvia, first wife of Marc Antony, Æ20. Eumeneia (as Fulvia) in Phrygia, circa 41-40 BC. Zmertorix, the son of Philonides, magistrate. Laureate female head of Fulvia as Nike to right / Athena standing left, holding shield and spear; ZMEPTOPIΓOΣ ΦIΛΩNIΔOY in two lines to left. RPC 3139; SNG München -; Copenhagen -. 5.94g, 20mm, 11h.
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Fulvia was the first wife of Marc Antony, having married him in 44 BC. She appears to have been a devoted spouse, and was an outspoken defender of his interests in Rome while he was away in the East. Antony's partisans renamed the Phrygian city of Eumeneia in her honour.