| Heritage World Coin Auctions > NYINC Signature Sale 3113 | Auction date: 8 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 31046 Price realized: 95,000 USD (Approx. 86,602 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Ancients Marc Antony as Triumvir (43-31 BC), with Lucius Antonius, as Consul, and M. Cocceius Nerva, as Proquaestor Pro Praetore. AV aureus (22mm, 8.13 gm, 12h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 2/5, wavy flan. Military mint traveling with Antony in Greece or Asia Minor, 41 BC. M•ANT•IMP•AVG VIR•R•P C•M•NERVA PRO Q•P (MP, AV, and NE ligate), bare head of Marc Antony right / L•ANTONIVS-COS, bare head of Lucius Antonius right. Calicó 121. Crawford 517/4b. Sydenham 1184 var. (III VIR). The clear portraiture demonstrates subtle familial resemblance on the warm, sunny fields. An extremely rare variety of an already exceptionally rare type. Ex Long Valley River Collection (Roma Numismatics Auction XX, 29 October 2020, lot 466; Roma Numismatics, Auction IX (22 March 2015), lot 572. Younger brother of Marc Antony, Lucius Antonius "Pietas" naturally backed his brother's leadership of the Caesarian party and his attempt to seize control of the state, but both ambitions were complicated by the arrival of Caesar's adoptive son Octavian. Relations between the brothers and Octavian cooled markedly after the final defeat of Caesar's assassins in 42 BC. The cold war escalated when Lucius Antony became consul in 41 BC and took a notably hostile stance toward Octavian. He was joined in this propaganda war by Marc Antony's wife, the fiery Fulvia, and the two began rousing Italian cities against Octavian's plan to settle 100,000 of his veterans on land confiscated from Italian citizens. Octavian reacted quickly and recalled his friend Agrippa from Spain at the head of several veteran legions, which besieged Lucius Antony and Fulvia in the town of Perusia. When Lucius and Fulvia surrendered in February, 40 BC, Marc Antony washed his hands of the fiasco and hung his wife and brother out to dry. Octavian spared Lucius and appointed him governor of Spain, whereas Fulvia and her children were exiled to Sicyon. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/roman-republic/ancients-marc-antony-as-triumvir-43-31-bc-with-lucius-antonius-as-consul-and-m-cocceius-nerva-as-proquaestor-p/a/3113-31046.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3113-01082024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Estimate: 100000-150000 USD |  |
