I picked this one up from @John Anthony 's auction of last week. I used to have an Antony of Legion VI in my first collection that I sold, so this was a chance to get a replacement. I rather like it because it was widely circulated - who knows how many hands it has been in? Soldiers, merchants, everyday people - so that makes it special. Roman Imperatorial, Mark Antony, 83-30 B.C. AR Denarius, 17mm, 3.0 grams, 11h; Mobile Military Mint, 32-31 B.C. Obverse: ANT AVG III VIR R P C Praetorian galley to right Reverse: Aquila between two signa LEG [?] across fields Feel free to share your Antony's - or for that matter Cleopatras!
Good price for such an historically important coin, although worn you can still see the galley clearly. Congrats.
Here is one that I cleaned not long ago. Roman Republic, Marcus Antonius (32-31 BC) AR Legionary Denarius Obverse: ANT AVG III VIR R P C, Praetorian galley rowing right, scepter tied with fillet on deck above. Reverse: LEG XIV, Aquila standard and two legionary standards. Reference: RSC 44; Cr 544/29; Syd 1234 Ex: Kayser-i Rum Numismatics
Here's my LEG III (I show it less often than my beloved LEG IV that everyboby must be fed up of having seen it so many times) Q
I couldn't resist throwing in something about Cleopatra. Here's her name in heiroglyphics. Notice that the upturned hand symbol was actually "D" in Egyptian, so the Ptolemies would have pronounced her name as Cleopadra. I took three years of heiroglyphics, heiratic, and demotic in college/grad school, BTW. There is a phonetic "T" in Egyptian which is a loaf of bread symbol, but for whatever reason they went for the phonetic "D".
