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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;randygeki, post: 1556128, member: 13719&quot;]It&#039;s always fun for me to thing about where a coins from, where it&#039;s been, and which hands passed it along.&nbsp; I like that with my Mark Antony legionary denarius, I have at least one good idea whos hand it passed through, and what event it could have seen.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Mark Antony, Triumvir and Imperator, 44 - 30 B.C., Silver denarius, cf. Crawford 544/14, Sydenham 1216, BMCRR 190, and RSC I 27 ff., Fair, Patrae?, 2.818g, 17.7mm, 180o, 32 - 31 B.C.; obverse ANT•AVG / III VIR•R•P•C, galley right with rowers, mast with banners at prow, border of dots; reverse LEG - [...], legionary eagle between two standards, border of dots Ex Forvm</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The silver for this issue may have come from the Ptolemaic treasury, and this coin may have been present at the Battle of Actium.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Battle of Actium was the decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic. It was fought between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII. The battle took place on 2 September 31 BC, on the Ionian Sea near the city of Actium, at the Roman province of Epirus vetus in Greece. Octavian&#039;s fleet was commanded by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, while Antony&#039;s fleet was supported by the ships of Queen Cleopatra of Ptolemaic Egypt.</p><p>Octavian&#039;s victory enabled him to consolidate his power over Rome and its dominions. To that end, he adopted the title of Princeps (&quot;first citizen&quot;) and some years after the victory was awarded the title of Augustus by the Roman Senate. This became the name by which he was known in later times. As Augustus, he would retain the trappings of a restored Republican leader; however, historians generally view this consolidation of power and the adoption of these honorifics as the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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