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E-Sale 60  1 Aug 2019
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Lot 490

Estimate: 400 GBP
Price realized: 320 GBP
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Fulvia (first wife of Marc Antony) Æ20 of Eumeneia (as Fulvia), Phrygia. Circa 41-40 BC. Zmertorix, the son of Philonides, magistrate. Laureate bust of Fulvia (as Nike) right / Athena standing left, holding shield and spear; ZMEPTOPIΓOΣ ΦIΛΩNIΔOY in two lines to left. RPC 3139; SNG München -; Copenhagen -. 5.84g, 20mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine. Rare.

Acquired from Leu Numismatik AG.

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.
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