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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 8117694, member: 98035&quot;]It might be easier to break it down by issuing authority</p><p><br /></p><p>Pre-Imperial</p><p>* As mentioned previously, the Julii, the Caesares, and the Claudii were all patrician gens, so it should be no surprise that various Republican moneyers are related to one or more emperors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Julius Caesar</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1412877[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Pompey, legally Caesar&#039;s son in law as he married Julia - This common-ish issue from Soloi-Pompeiopolis has variously been attributed to being a lifetime issue from the 60s BC, or possibly as late as the Flavian era - regardless, it does show Pompey the Great</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1412875[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Pompey&#039;s sons Gnaeus and Sextus (no coins, but also I don&#039;t think either put their own likeness on coinage)</p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus Antonius had pretty prolific coinage, mine also has Octavia, his 4th wife and Octavian&#039;s sister</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1412876[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And his earlier 3rd wife, Fulvia</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1412874[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>His brother Lucius also issued coins which are fairly rare, so none to show for now.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Cleopatra VII I feel needs to be included, as she &quot;hunched&quot; with both Caesar and Antony, and had children by both</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1412878[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Her son by Julius, Caesarion has coins that can be attributed to his reign with Cleopatra, but IIRC there are no coins in his likeness, and maybe only a statue or two.</p><p><br /></p><p>Her two sons by Antony probably died without issue in their teens, but Cleopatra Selene II went on to marry king Juba II, and their children and grandchildren went on to play important roles in the mid-1st century politics of Roman annexation and expansion.</p><p><br /></p><p>As previously mentioned, another prominent member of Antony&#039;s line was Polemo II, who was a grandson of Antonia, Antony&#039;s daughter from his second marriage (not to be confused with Antonia, the mother of Claudius)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1412888[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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