Maison Palombo
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République romaine - Marc Antoine et Jules César
Denier - Gaule cisalpine (43).
Exemplaire de la collection Etienne Paul Nicolas (1904-1981) vente Leu 17 des 3 et 4 mai 1977, N° 774 et de la collection d'un " Student and his Mentor " vente NAC 73 du 18 novembre 2013, N° 217.
3.65g - Cr. 488/1 - Sear Imperators 118
Pratiquement Superbe – XF
On 21 April 43 BC, in his fourteenth Philippic, M. Tullius Cicero demanded that Mark Antony (who had been defeated at the Battle of Mutina) be declared an enemy of the State (hostis), to which the Senate agreed. But then Antony formed an alliance with Octavian, and on 27 November he formed the Second Triumvirate with Lepidus (Cicero was then killed whilst trying to flee to Macedonia on 7 December). This coin was struck in Gallia Cisalpina (north of the Rubicon river), where Antony had been defeated (in modern Modena), quite obviously in haste - either just after April 43 BC when Antony was still challenging Octavian (according to M. Crawford) - or just before November 43 BC when the three Triumvir made common cause against Julius Caesar's assassins (according to B. Woytek). This coin is a perfect example of Antony's propaganda, to claim his fidelity to the regretted Caesar, and while Antony's portrait could already be found on earlier emissions, this coin type is the first one on which his name is inscribed.
Denier - Gaule cisalpine (43).
Exemplaire de la collection Etienne Paul Nicolas (1904-1981) vente Leu 17 des 3 et 4 mai 1977, N° 774 et de la collection d'un " Student and his Mentor " vente NAC 73 du 18 novembre 2013, N° 217.
3.65g - Cr. 488/1 - Sear Imperators 118
Pratiquement Superbe – XF
On 21 April 43 BC, in his fourteenth Philippic, M. Tullius Cicero demanded that Mark Antony (who had been defeated at the Battle of Mutina) be declared an enemy of the State (hostis), to which the Senate agreed. But then Antony formed an alliance with Octavian, and on 27 November he formed the Second Triumvirate with Lepidus (Cicero was then killed whilst trying to flee to Macedonia on 7 December). This coin was struck in Gallia Cisalpina (north of the Rubicon river), where Antony had been defeated (in modern Modena), quite obviously in haste - either just after April 43 BC when Antony was still challenging Octavian (according to M. Crawford) - or just before November 43 BC when the three Triumvir made common cause against Julius Caesar's assassins (according to B. Woytek). This coin is a perfect example of Antony's propaganda, to claim his fidelity to the regretted Caesar, and while Antony's portrait could already be found on earlier emissions, this coin type is the first one on which his name is inscribed.