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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8127089, member: 110350&quot;]Legionary denarius not issued by Mark Antony:</p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, AR Denarius [<i>Restored Issue of Mark Antony Legionary Denarius Leg. VI, probably issued for 200th anniversary of Battle of Actium</i>], 168-169 AD, Rome Mint.&nbsp; Obv. Praetorian galley moving left over waves with four crew members, ANTONIVS AVGVR around from 8 o’clock, IIIVIR R P C across below galley / Rev. Legionary eagle (<i>aquila</i>) facing left between two standards, ANTONINVS ET VERVS AVG REST [ <i>= Restituit</i>] around from 8 o’clock, LEG - VI across lower field. RIC III M. Aurelius 443 (at p. 248), RSC I Mark Antony 83 (ill. at p. 127), Sear RCV II 5236 (ill. at p. 341), BMCRE 500. 19 mm., 2.86 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1415467[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>*See Sear RCV II at p. 340: “Issue of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus restoring the ‘Legionary’ Coinage of Mark Antony. The reasons for this remarkable restoration remain obscure. Mattingly (BMCRE, p. cxxiii) suggests that Legio VI Ferrata, which had fought for Antony at Philippi in 42 BC, may have played a leading role in the Parthian War of AD 164, the exceptional commemoration of this achievement on the coinage being prompted both by the the legion’s long and distinguished history and the similarity of the names ‘Antonius” and ‘Antoninus.” <b>The 200th anniversary of the Battle of Actium [in 31 BC] perhaps provides a more obvious reason for the issue</b>.” (Emphasis added.) [Remainder of footnote omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next, another &quot;restoration&quot; issue of an earlier coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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