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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5159684, member: 110350"]These are all extremely nice examples. And [USER=89687]@ominus1[/USER], I can't believe you were able to get yours for only $20!</p><p><br /></p><p>This type is actually one of the two Roman Republican coins I ordered that I'm still waiting for, to decide if I want to put them on my top 10 list. Not the one that went from Spain to Cincinnati (instead of NYC) and then back to Spain, but the other one. Which is also coming from across the Atlantic, so the clock is ticking on whether I actually get it before the end of December. And now that I've named it, I've probably jinxed that possibility!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In fact, the moneyer, Lucius Marcius Philippus (IIIVIR in 56 BCE, suffect consul in 38) was Octavian's stepbrother. It was his father, also named Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul in 56), who was Octavian's stepfather by virtue of marrying the widow Atia, the mother of Octavian and the daughter of Julius Caesar's sister Julia and her husband M. Atius Balbus. See Harlan, Michael, <i>Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins</i> 63 BCE - 49 BCE (2d ed. 2015), Ch. 15 at pp. 122-128.</p><p><br /></p><p>The horseman depicted by the statue atop the Aqua Marcia aqueduct on the reverse was Quintus Marcius Rex (praetor iin 144 BCE), who built that aqueduct. He was a distant cousin of the moneyer, but not actually his ancestor, since Quintus belonged to the Reges branch of the <i>gens</i> Marcia (named after the fourth king of Rome, Ancus Marcius, depicted on the obverse), rather than the moneyer's Philippi branch. The two branches had separated by the end of the third century. Id. So of the two figures the moneyer depicted on this coin, one was not technically his ancestor, and one was his ancestor but his branch of the <i>gens</i> didn't bear the name. Perhaps claiming some ancestral credit he didn't quite merit. (So I've now given away the basic contents of the contemplated footnote that I planned to accompany my example when I receive and post it!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5159684, member: 110350"]These are all extremely nice examples. And [USER=89687]@ominus1[/USER], I can't believe you were able to get yours for only $20! This type is actually one of the two Roman Republican coins I ordered that I'm still waiting for, to decide if I want to put them on my top 10 list. Not the one that went from Spain to Cincinnati (instead of NYC) and then back to Spain, but the other one. Which is also coming from across the Atlantic, so the clock is ticking on whether I actually get it before the end of December. And now that I've named it, I've probably jinxed that possibility! In fact, the moneyer, Lucius Marcius Philippus (IIIVIR in 56 BCE, suffect consul in 38) was Octavian's stepbrother. It was his father, also named Lucius Marcius Philippus (consul in 56), who was Octavian's stepfather by virtue of marrying the widow Atia, the mother of Octavian and the daughter of Julius Caesar's sister Julia and her husband M. Atius Balbus. See Harlan, Michael, [I]Roman Republican Moneyers and their Coins[/I] 63 BCE - 49 BCE (2d ed. 2015), Ch. 15 at pp. 122-128. The horseman depicted by the statue atop the Aqua Marcia aqueduct on the reverse was Quintus Marcius Rex (praetor iin 144 BCE), who built that aqueduct. He was a distant cousin of the moneyer, but not actually his ancestor, since Quintus belonged to the Reges branch of the [I]gens[/I] Marcia (named after the fourth king of Rome, Ancus Marcius, depicted on the obverse), rather than the moneyer's Philippi branch. The two branches had separated by the end of the third century. Id. So of the two figures the moneyer depicted on this coin, one was not technically his ancestor, and one was his ancestor but his branch of the [I]gens[/I] didn't bear the name. Perhaps claiming some ancestral credit he didn't quite merit. (So I've now given away the basic contents of the contemplated footnote that I planned to accompany my example when I receive and post it!)[/QUOTE]
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