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<p>[QUOTE="Jay GT4, post: 8353014, member: 88526"][ATTACH=full]1482333[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">M ANTONIVS IMP COS DESIG ITER ET TERT</font></p><p><font size="5">Conjoined heads of Antony and Octavia right, Antony wearing an ivy wreath</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">III VIR RPC</font></p><p><font size="5">Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus on cista mystica flanked by two interlaced snakes</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Ephesus, summer-autumn 39 BC</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">11.22g</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Imperators 263, RPC 2202, Babelon Antonia 61, Syndenham 1198, BMCRR east 135</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Punch mark on the obverse protrudes onto the reverse</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Ex-Numisantique</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">This series of Cistophori from Asia commemorates the marriage of Antony and Octavia and celebrate's Antony's divine status in the east as the "New Dionysus" which was bestowed on him when he arrived in Ephesus in 41 BC. Antony's titulature of "Imperator and Consul designate for the second and third times" fixes the period of issue to the latter part of 39 BC after the Pact of Misenum in July and before Antony's second Imperatorial acclamation in the winter of 39-38BC</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Next a relative of Antony who is not part of the Julio-Claudian Imperial family...</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jay GT4, post: 8353014, member: 88526"][ATTACH=full]1482333[/ATTACH] [SIZE=5]M ANTONIVS IMP COS DESIG ITER ET TERT Conjoined heads of Antony and Octavia right, Antony wearing an ivy wreath III VIR RPC Dionysus standing left, holding cantharus and thyrsus on cista mystica flanked by two interlaced snakes Ephesus, summer-autumn 39 BC 11.22g Imperators 263, RPC 2202, Babelon Antonia 61, Syndenham 1198, BMCRR east 135 Punch mark on the obverse protrudes onto the reverse Ex-Numisantique This series of Cistophori from Asia commemorates the marriage of Antony and Octavia and celebrate's Antony's divine status in the east as the "New Dionysus" which was bestowed on him when he arrived in Ephesus in 41 BC. Antony's titulature of "Imperator and Consul designate for the second and third times" fixes the period of issue to the latter part of 39 BC after the Pact of Misenum in July and before Antony's second Imperatorial acclamation in the winter of 39-38BC Next a relative of Antony who is not part of the Julio-Claudian Imperial family...[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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