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Lot 2999       Roman Silver & Bronze

Estimate $350
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $280

REPUBLIC, Mark Antony and Octavian, (41 B.C.), silver denarius, mint moving with Mark Antony, obv. bare head of Mark Antony to right, around M ANT IMP AVG III VIR R P C M BA[RBAT Q P], rev. bare head of Octavian to right, around CAESAR IMP III VIR R P C, (S.424, Cr.517/2, Syd.1181). Surface scratches on obverse and reverse, banker's mark on neck of Octavian and cheek of Mark Antony, otherwise good fine and scarce.

Ex. Spink & Son, London with its ticket. $$ Although produced three years after Julius Caesar's introduction of contemporary portraiture on Roman coinage, this issue displays a very developed style with encircling inscription, upon which all later imperial numismatic iconography was based. The coin was produced by Antony, honouring his colleague in the triumvirate, Octavian. The issue made in the name of M. Barbatius Pollio, a friend of Julius Caesar and quaester pro praetore to Antony in the East. The year 41 B.C. saw the first meeting of Antony with Cleopatra, at Tarsus, and he spent the following winter with her in Egypt.

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