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Message:: [QUOTE="Cucumbor, post: 2418386, member: 4298"]Nice catch [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER] [USER=75563]@ancientcoinguru[/USER], I think it's a typo, the minting year is rather 41 BC IMO Posting after [USER=39084]@IdesOfMarch01[/USER]  is always challenging, I'll do my best with my MA denarii, Mark Antony being a soft spot of mine (I've already posted them quite some times, but what the heck, we've been asked....) <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/0023-056.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Mark Antony, Denarius Struck in a travelling mint, moving with Mark Antony in 41 BCANT AVG IMP III VI R P C, Head of Mark Antony rightFortuna standing left, holding rudder in right hand and cornucopiae in left; at feet, stork; below, PIETAS COS3,82 gr - 20 mmRef : Crawford # 516/2, Sydenham # 1174, HCRI # 241, C # 77Ex. Auctiones.GmbH The following comment is copied from NAC auction # 52/294 about the very rare corresponding aureus :The year 41 B.C., when this aureus was struck at a mint travelling in the East with Marc Antony, was a period of unusual calm for the triumvir, who took a welcomed, if unexpected, rest after the great victory he and Octavian had won late in 42 B.C. against Brutus and Cassius at the Battle of Philippi. Antony’s original plan of organising an invasion of Parthia was put on hold after he sailed to Tarsus, where he had summoned Cleopatra VII, the Greek queen of Egypt. She was to defend herself against accusations that she had aided Brutus and Cassius before Philippi, but it is generally agreed that the summons was merely a pretext for Antony’s plan to secure aid for his Parthian campaign. Their meeting was anything but a source of conflict; indeed, they found much common ground, including their agreement that it was in their mutual interests to execute Cleopatra’s sister and rival Arsinoe IV, who had been ruling Cyprus. In addition to sharing political interests, the two agreed that Antony would winter in Egypt to share a luxurious vacation with Cleopatra that caused a further postponement of Antony’s designs on Parthia. Thus began another of the queen’s liaisons with noble Romans, a prior having been Julius Caesar (and, according to Plutarch, Pompey Jr. before him). During the course of his stay in Egypt Cleopatra was impregnated, which resulted in twins born to her in 40 B.C. But this care-free period was only a momentary calm in the storm, for trouble was brewing in both the East and the West. Early in 40 B.C. Syria was overrun by the Parthians, seemingly while Antony travelled to Italy to meet Octavian following the Perusine War, in which Octavian defeated the armies of Antony’s wife and brother. The conflict with Octavian was resolved when they signed a pact at Brundisium in October, and Syria was eventually recovered through the efforts of Antony’s commanders from 40 to 38 B.C. <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0023-060np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Mark Antony and Octavian, Denarius minted in Asia minor c.41 BCM ANT IMP AVG III RPCM BARBAT QP, Bare head of Mark Antony rightCAESAR IMP PONT III VIR RPC, Bare head of Octavian right3.62 grRef : HCRI # 243, RCV #1504, Cohen #8Ex Coll Alain M. <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0023-070np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Mark Antony and Lucius Antonius, Denarius Denarius minted in Ephesus in 41 BCM ANT IMP AVG III VIR RPCM NERVA PROQ P, Bare head of Mark Antony rightL ANTONIUS COS, Bare head of Lucius Antonius right3.58 grRef : HCRI # 246, RCV #1509, Cohen #2Following description taken from NAC auction 40, #617, about an other example of the same coin :"This denarius, depicting the bare heads of Marc Antony and his youngest brother Lucius Antony, is a rare dual-portrait issue of the Imperatorial period. The family resemblance is uncanny, and one wonders if they truly looked this much alike, or if it is another case of portrait fusion, much like we observe with the dual-portrait billon tetradrachms of Antioch on which the face of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII takes on the square dimensions of Marc Antony. When Antony fled Rome to separate himself from Octavian and to take up his governorship in Gaul, Lucius went with him, and suffered equally from the siege of Mutina. This coin, however, was struck in a later period, when Lucius had for a second time taken up arms against Octavian in the west. Marc Antony was already in the east, and that is the region from which this coinage emanates. Since Lucius lost the ‘Perusine War’ he waged against Octavian, and was subsequently appointed to an office in Spain, where he died, it is likely that he never even saw one of his portrait coins." <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/0023-075.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Mark Antony, Fourree denarius Minted in Athens in 32 BCANTON AVG IMP III COS DES III III V R P C, bare head of Mark Antony rightANTONINVS / AVG IMP III in two lines3,52 grRef : RCV # 1478, HCRI # 347, RSC # 2, Cohen # 2 <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0023-080np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Mark Antony, Denarius struck in a travelling mint, c.32-31 BCANT AVG III VIR RPC, Galley rightLEG IV, Legionary eagle between two standards3.67 grRef : HCRI #352, Cohen #30 Q[/QUOTE]

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