The Triumvirs. Mark Antony and Octavia. Summer-autumn 39 BC. AR Cistophorus (28mm, 11.48 g, 1h). Ephesus mint. Conjoined heads of Mark Antony, wearing ivy-wreath, and Octavia right / Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus, on cista mystica flanked by two interlaced snakes with heads erect. CRI 263; Sydenham 1198; RSC 3; RPC I 2202. Toned, granular surfaces, areas of corrosion on reverse. VF. Two attractive portraits.
From the Demeter Collection. Ex Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 72, 14 June 2006), lot 1346.