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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 4495535, member: 15481&quot;]Great write-up and coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>It is interesting to read about how the ruling class of Rome made alliances and show of unity through marriages and other public displays. With Marcus Antonius and Octavian, you really get the «image is everything» feeling. I suspect there was little love lost between the two, at any point of their cooperation. In the book «Augustus» by A.H.M Jones, the author writes about their first meeting after the death of Caesar, when Octavian asks to get paid the money from Caesars heritage:</p><p><br /></p><p>«(...) He had not got his liquid assets, for Caesars widow Calpurnia had handed over to Antonius not only her late husbands papers, but all his cash, amounting, it was said, to nearly 100 million sesterces. Under the will the heirs had to pay a legacy of 300 sesterces to every Roman citizen; this meant only the urban plebs which received the corn dole, but they numberd 250 000, so that 75 million sesterces was immediately required.</p><p>Antonius could hardly refuse the lex curatia, though he later had it blocked by tribuns, but he would not part with the money, alleging apparently that most of the sum he had received from Calpurnia was public funds. This may have been true, but it was probably also true that Antonius had spent the money already. Throughout the interview Antonius was unhelpful and even hostile.»</p><p><br /></p><p>Not a great start, then. But here they are a few years later, numismatically united as ever<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1115237[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>M. Antonius and Octavian denarius, Ephesus 41 BC. RCV 1504.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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