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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cucumbor, post: 2334791, member: 4298&quot;]Well, nice coins folks !</p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday I was browsing the entire Vcoins website in search of a MA I would like to buy, but none screamed &quot;buy me&quot; to my face. Among the imperators, MA is a guy I have a soft spot for and I love coins of his. Here are some more (posting after [USER=19615]@Volodya[/USER] has is always challenging though)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0023-050np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b> Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, Denarius </b>minted in 43 BC</p><p>M ANTO IMP RPC, Head of Mark Antony right, lituus behind him</p><p>CAESAR DIC, Head of Caesar right, jug behind him</p><p>3.76 gr</p><p>Ref : HCRI # 123, RCV #1465, Cohen #3 </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0023-060np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b> Mark Antony and Octavian, Denarius </b>minted in Asia minor c.41 BC</p><p>M ANT IMP AVG III RPCM BARBAT QP, Bare head of Mark Antony right</p><p>CAESAR IMP PONT III VIR RPC, Bare head of Octavian right</p><p>3.62 gr</p><p>Ref : HCRI # 243, RCV #1504, Cohen #8</p><p><i>Ex Coll Alain M. </i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0023-070np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b> Mark Antony and Lucius Antonius, Denarius</b> minted in Ephesus in 41 BC</p><p>M ANT IMP AVG III VIR RPCM NERVA PROQ P, Bare head of Mark Antony right</p><p>L ANTONIUS COS, Bare head of Lucius Antonius right</p><p>3.58 gr</p><p>Ref : HCRI # 246, RCV #1509, Cohen #2</p><p>Following description taken from NAC auction 40, #617, about an other example of the same coin :</p><p>&quot;<i>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.</i>&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/0023-075.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b> Mark Antony, Fourree denarius </b> Minted in Athens in 32 BC</p><p>ANTON AVG IMP III COS DES III III V R P C, bare head of Mark Antony right</p><p>ANTONINVS / AVG IMP III in two lines</p><p>3,52 gr</p><p>Ref : RCV # 1478, HCRI # 347, RSC # 2, Cohen # 2</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0023-080np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b> Mark Antony, Denarius </b>struck in a travelling mint, c.32-31 BC</p><p>ANT AVG III VIR RPC, Galley right</p><p>LEG IV, Legionary eagle between two standards</p><p>3.67 gr</p><p>Ref : HCRI #352, Cohen #30 </p><p><br /></p><p>Q[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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