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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;alde, post: 2660327, member: 6043&quot;]I got this denarius in the mail yesterday. It&#039;s a bit porous but has plenty of nice detail. It is cataloged in Sear The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators as 302a from southern or central Italian mint, late 40-early 39 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv. Bare head of Octavian right, with slight beard, CAESAR IMP around.</p><p>Rev. Caduceus, ANTONINVS IMP clockwise around. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]590049[/ATTACH] </p><p>From The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;A remarkable feature of this entire series is the prominence accorded by Octavian to his triumviral colleague. Whereas Antony&#039;s coinage in celebration of the Brundisium agreement mentions his younger partner merely in a subsidiary role, Octavian strikes a derarius bearing Antony&#039;s portrait alone with his own name relegated to the reverse. Further, the quinarii give Antony&#039;s name precedence over that of Octavian. If, as seems likely, the coins were struck in Gaul then Octavian may have been adopting a deliberately conciliatory attitude in a region which had so recently been under the control of Antony&#039;s generals. All this should be taken as strong evidence of the dominant position still enjoyed by Antony at this time. That pre-eminence was to endure for several years more, but all the time the politically astute young Caesar was employing all his guile to strengthen his position at the expense of the older man and almost imperceptibly the balance of power began to shift.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This little tidbits of history so closely connected to the coins is why I love this hobby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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