Marc Antony AR Denarius. Athens, summer 32 BC. ANTON AVG IM[P COS DES III III V] R P C, bare head to right, small P (engraver's signature) in hair behind ear / ANTONIVS AVG•IMP III in two lines across field. Crawford 542/2; CRI 347; BMCRR East 177; RSC 2. 3.75g, 17mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From a private European collection.
The small P on the obverse of this coin represents the only example of an artist engraving his initials on a Roman Republican coin. This fact went unnoticed for centuries, until it was first pointed out in a Santamaria sales catalogue in 1920.