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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jay GT4, post: 3151783, member: 88526&quot;]This one arrived the other day and has long been on my list.&nbsp; Ive always been an Antony fan.&nbsp; Like Bing I was going for every Antony legionary denarius.&nbsp; After many years I got bored with essentially chasing after a number and so I switched to other aspects of Antony&#039;s coinage.&nbsp; I sold my more common legionaries and focused on the rarities and portraits of not only Antony but his extended family as well.&nbsp; I have several coins of Fulvia, like the more readily available quinarii which give Antony&#039;s age as 41.&nbsp; But this week I got this rare beauty...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-148311" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-148311" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-148311</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]807643[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Fulvia</b></p><p>Bust of Fulvia (as Nike) right</p><p><br /></p><p>Athena standing left, holding shield and spear; ΦOYΛOYIANON in right field, ZMEPTOPIΓOΣ ΦIΛΩNIΔOΥ in two lines in left field.</p><p><br /></p><p>Phrygia 41, 40 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>6.69g</p><p><br /></p><p>Rare</p><p><br /></p><p>Ex-Savoca</p><p><br /></p><p>RPC 3139; SNG München –; BMC 21</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Fulvia married Mark Antony in 44 BC, and became an outspoken defender of his interests in Rome while he campaigned in the East. The city name of Eumenea in Phrygia was changed to Fulvia during Mark Antony&#039;s journey to the east in 41 BC. Fulvia died at Sicyon the next year, hence this was a short-lived coinage. Sometime afterward these coins struck at &quot;Fulviana&quot; they had their ethnic scratched off, and two countermarks were applied: one may be resolved as Eumeneia; the other as Philonidos, (although Zmertorix himself has been suggested). These countermarks suggest that, rather than melting down the coinage of Fulvia and striking new coins, a more expeditious solution was required to keep needed currency in circulation. This coin however was not countermarked![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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