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Auction 123 23-24 May 2023
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The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. 42 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.65 g, 1h). Military mint traveling with Antony in Greece. Bare head right, wearing beard / Facing head of Sol on disk within distyle temple. Crawford 496/1; CRI 128; Sydenham 1168; RSC 12a; RBW –. Deep iridescent toning, minor marks. VF.
Ex Earle K. Stanton Collection (Knobloch FPL 26 [February 1965]), no. 463.
This coin type was likely struck soon after the battle of Philippi in the late summer or early autumn of 42 BC. Antony is still shown wearing the mourning beard he had grown after Julius Caesar's death; the title of IMP, however, places it after the battle. The reference to the sun god within a temple on the reverse, probably an allusion to the East, continues the solar references he had taken up upon is arrival in Greece for the campaign against the assassins.
Ex Earle K. Stanton Collection (Knobloch FPL 26 [February 1965]), no. 463.
This coin type was likely struck soon after the battle of Philippi in the late summer or early autumn of 42 BC. Antony is still shown wearing the mourning beard he had grown after Julius Caesar's death; the title of IMP, however, places it after the battle. The reference to the sun god within a temple on the reverse, probably an allusion to the East, continues the solar references he had taken up upon is arrival in Greece for the campaign against the assassins.