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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Michael Stolt, post: 5125699, member: 100445&quot;]Received something very nice from CNG the other day. A fantastic Mark Antony desultor type. I posted this a while back in my &quot;pending arrivals thread&quot; so some of you have already seen it, but here it is with my own photos. This has been high on my list for quite some time so I&#039;m extremely happy to add it to the collection!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1202765[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Mark Antony</b>. April-May 44 BC. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 3.87 g, 8h). Rome mint; P. Sepullius Macer, moneyer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: <i>Veiled head right, wearing beard; capis to left, lituus to right.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: <i>Desultor (horseman who leaps from one horse to another), wearing conical cap and holding whip, right on horseback, second horse behind; palm frond and wreath to left; P SEPVLLIVS above, MACER below.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Reference: Crawford 480/22.</p><p><br /></p><p>Provenance: From the John L. Cowan Collection. Ex Cederlind BBS 154 (31 March 2010), lot 213, ex Gorny &amp; Mosch auction 180 (12 October 2009), lot 322, ex Numismatica Ars Classica auction 41 (20 November 2007), lot 17.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;This is the first portrait issue of Mark Antony. Struck within a month or two of the assassination of Julius Caesar, Antony is shown bearded, clearly symbolic of one in mourning. For the next two and a half years, until after the battle of Philippi, the portraits on coins of both Mark Antony and Octavian were bearded for the same reason. The reverse depicts a rider who switches from one horse to the other while the horses are in motion, an equestrian event which was part of the Parilian games, celebrated each year on 21 April. In 44 BC, the year of Julius Caesar’s assassination, the Parilia celebrated Caesar’s victory at Munda. Including a desultor on the reverse, Mark Antony probably attempted to kindle public support of the Caesarian cause.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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