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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3180677, member: 84744&quot;]I&#039;m going to be an unabashed thread hog and try to do all of these.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]819602[/ATTACH] </p><p>Sextus Pompey, issued 42-38 BCE, Æ As, Sicilian mint. Obv: Laureate head of Janus with the features of Cn. Pompeius Magnus. MAGN (ligate) above Rev: Prow of galley to right, PIVS above and IMP below. 31mm, 16.4g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]819605[/ATTACH]</p><p>Mark Antony and Lepidus, military mint in Transalpine Gaul, May-Summer 43 BC. AR Quinarius (12mm, 1.71g, 6h). Emblems of the augurate: lituus, capis, and raven standing l. R/ Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis, and apex.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]819606[/ATTACH] </p><p>Mark Antony, denarius issued 32 BCE, Athens mint. Obv: ANTON AVG IMP III COS DES III III V R P C, bare head of Antony right. Rev: ANTONIVS AVG IMP III in 2 lines. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]819607[/ATTACH] </p><p>Octavian/Augustus, denarius issued 32-29 BCE, Rome or Brundisium mint. Obv: Bare head right. Rev: CAESAR DIVI F, Pax standing, holding branch &amp; cornucopiae.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]819608[/ATTACH] </p><p>Agrippa (44-12 BCE, struck under Caligula 37-41 CE) Æ as, Rome. Obv: M AGRIPPA L F COS III, head left wearing rostral crown. Rev: Neptune standing facing, head left, naked except for cloak draped behind him &amp; over both arms, holding small dolphin in right hand &amp; vertical trident in left., SC around.</p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s a new one which may be associated with Agrippa:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]819609[/ATTACH] </p><p>Denarius, 12 B.C. uncertain Eastern mint. Obv: Bare head r., CAESAR, oak-wreath around. Rv. Large candelabrum adorned with rams&#039; heads and surmounted by an annulet and pellet—lunar symbols within a floral wreath decorated with two bucraniums and two pateras.</p><p>-- The reverse type has a funereal theme, and this may have been issued upon Agrippa&#039;s death, with the obverse showing the new heir, Gaius Caesar. (It&#039;s controversial, though.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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