A routine coin hoard of 1056 coins was found in Northern England in 2018 and recently purchased by a local museum. The most recent coin was that of Septimius Severus (reign AD 193-211). Interestingly, there is a coin of Mark Antony from around 32 BCE in the hoard. Severus was in Britain from AD 208 till he died near York in 211. Not too exciting, but it is noteworthy that someone in remote Britain carried around contemporary coins of Septimius Severus as well as a coin of Mark Antony from two centuries prior. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-65244111 Location of York, United Kingdom, not far from the location of the coin hoard, as well as the place of Septimius Severus’s death
Denarii of Mark Anthony were minted in industrial quantities and flooded the market for centuries. They became almost smooth due to 200 years of circulation, but they were still accepted under Commodus or the Severians, probably because their silver content was still higher than for new Severus denarii. A hoard of 101 denarii found in East Cheshire contained denarii of Mark Anthony to Commodus (PAS LVPL-B44185). Another one (SUR-AB7016) contained 19 denarii from Mark Anthony to Septimius Severus. Another one (BUC-60D174) contained 101 denarii from Mark Anthony to Elagabalus.
Back in the early 1980's I purchased part of a hoard that was found in the UK. The hoard did go through an inquest and this part was given to one of the finders. There was one heavily worn Marc Antony Denarius. You could only make out that it was one because you could see just the center of the galley on the obverse and a bit of the central standard on the reverse. However the latest coins in the hoard were some twenty antoninianii of Gordian III. As mentioned this was only part of the hoard, the antoninianii of Gordian did have slight wear, so it is likely that this hoard was even later.
Antony's denarii had a lower silver fineness than other republican, imperatorial and early imperial denarii, more in keeping with that of eastern silver cistophori, etc. As the imperial silver gradually became more debased, Antony's denarii continued to circulate while finer republican, imperatorial and early imperial silver was set aside. It's not unusual to find heavily worn Antony denarii still in use as late as the Severan period.
