| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 553 | Auction date: 3 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 449 Price realized: 110 USD (Approx. 100 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. Early 42 BC. AR Quinarius (12mm, 1.55 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Winged bust of Victory right, with the likeness of Fulvia / Lion walking right; XLI to right (= 41, Antony's age at time of issue). Crawford 489/6; CRI 126; Sydenham 1163; Lyon 3; King 76; RSC 3 (Fulvia); DCA 941; RBW 1713. Light iridescent toning, off center, porosity, bankers' marks, light scrape and scratches. Near VF. From the Conti Collection. Estimate: 100 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 646 Price realized: 2,750 USD (Approx. 2,519 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. Summer 31 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.41 g, 12h). Cyrene mint; L. Pinarius Scarpus, imperator. Head of Jupiter-Ammon right; AVGVR PONTIF around / Victory standing right on globe, holding wreath tied with fillet in extended right hand and palm frond over left shoulder in left hand; IMP CAESAR / DIVI F across field. Crawford 546/4; CRI 411; Sydenham 1281; RSC –; BMCRR Cyrenaica 4; Kestner –; RBW 1854. Toned, obverse die flaws, reverse scrape. Good VF. Extremely rare, one of the rarest of Mark Antony's denarii, only one in CoinArchives. Estimate: 1000 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 645 Price realized: 6,000 USD (Approx. 5,495 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. Summer 31 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.72 g, 12h). Uncertain mint (Actium?). D. Turullius, moneyer. Bare head right; M • ANTONIVS • AVG • IMP • IIII • COS • TERT III VIR • R • P • C around / Victory standing left, holding wreath in extended right hand and cradling palm frond in left arm; all within wreath. Crawford 545/2; CRI 388; Sydenham 1211a; RSC 81; BMCRR East 228; Kestner –; RBW 1851. Toned with underlying luster, edge scrape. Near EF. A wonderful example of the type. Rare. Estimate: 2000 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 126 | Auction date: 28 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 636 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot  | |
| Lot description: The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. Summer 31 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.45 g, 11h). Cyrene mint; L. Pinarius Scarpus, imperator. Head of Jupiter Ammon right / Victory advancing right, holding wreath and palm frond over left shoulder. Crawford 546/2a; CRI 390; Sydenham 1280; RSC 1; RBW 1852. Iridescent tone, reverse deposits. Good VF. Ex Heritage 3071 (6 January 2019), lot 33245. The final issue struck in Antony's name before his defeat at Actium and his eventual suicide. Estimate: 750 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 126 | Auction date: 28 May 2024 |
| Lot number: 614 Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot | |
| Lot description: The Pompeians. Sextus Pompey. 37/6 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.81 g, 6h). Uncertain Sicilian mint. Bare head of Pompey the Great right; capis to left, lituus to right / Neptune standing left, holding apluster and resting foot on prow between the Catanaean brothers Anapias and Amphinomus running in opposite directions, bearing their parents on their shoulders. Crawford 511/3a; CRI 334; Sydenham 1344; RSC 17 (Pompey the Great); RBW 1785. Light iridescent tone, short flan crack. Good VF. From the Wild Rose Collection, purchased from Pars Coins, March 2017. Ex Elvira Elisa Clain-Stefanelli Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 92, Part II, 24 May 2016), lot 1936. Sextus Pompey came of age during the ascendancy of his father, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great), as the leading general of Rome. After Pompey's defeat by Julius Caesar at Pharsalus in August of 48 BC, and his treacherous murder in Egypt later that year, Sextus joined the Pompeian resistance to Caesar in Spain. Caesar's assassination on March 15, 44 BC brought a brief revival of Senatorial control, during which Sextus relocated to Massalia in southern Gaul. In April of 43 BC, the Senate appointed him commander of the Roman fleet. Although the promotion was rescinded three months later, Sextus wasted no time in seizing Sicily and spent the next months building an impregnable power base on the island even as Rome fell under the sway of Caesar's political heirs, the Triumvirs Antony, Octavian and Lepidus. While the Triumvirs hunted down Caesar's assassins, Sextus enjoyed a rollicking life as a pirate king, using his fleet to raid far and wide. This attractive denarius belongs to his piratical period on Sicily and honors his father, Pompey the Great, on the obverse, while the reverse depicts the sea god Neptune along with the semi-legendary Catanaean twins, Anapius and Amphinomus, who rescued their parents from an eruption of Mount Aetna and became symbols of filial piety. Estimate: 1500 USD |  |
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| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 622 Price realized: 1,600 USD (Approx. 1,465 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: The Republicans. Brutus. Late summer-autumn 42 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.96 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece; Pedanius Costa, legatus. Laureate head of Apollo to right; LEG upwards to left, COSTA downwards to right / Trophy composed of cuirass, crested helmet, oval shield with incurved sides, and two crossed spears; IMP upwards to left, BRVTVS downwards to right. Crawford 506/2; CRI 209; Sydenham 1296; RSC 4; BMCRR East 59-61; Kestner 3775-6; RBW 1778. Toned with a hint of iridescence, minor marks, slightly off center on reverse. EF. Ex Lampasas Collection (Triton XXIV, 19 January 2021), lot 977; Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 453 (2 October 2019), lot 485. Brutus is best known for his role in the assassination of Julius Caesar on March 15, 44 BC. This action, while often thought as an attempt to save liberty and justice, was actually meant to try to preserve aristocracy and privilege. Brutus and the other conspirators wanted to restore power to the Senate, comprised of the wealthiest and most powerful of Roman citizens. This brought him in conflict with Julius Caesar, who wanted to break the old power holds in the Senate, populating it with men of lower rank and birth. In a way, Julius Caesar could be seen as promoting a dictatorship with some flavor of a democracy, whereas Brutus and the other conspirators were attempting to save the aristocracy. After his assassination of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Cassius occupied Rome, but had to flee when a funeral oration delivered by Caesar's protégé, Marc Antony, turned public opinion against them. Brutus and Cassius went their separate ways, but met again in early 42 BC in Smyrna, Ionia, where they began preparations for the inevitable conflict that would ensue between them and Marc Antony and Octavian, Caesar's grandnephew. They began using their armies to conquer cities, for which this series of coins was undoubtedly issued. The title IMP on the reverse shows that Brutus still styled himself the savior of the Republic, as that was a title only the Senate could award. Estimate: 1000 USD |  |
