Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 585Auction date: 16 April 2025
Lot number: 548

Price realized: 140 USD   (Approx. 123 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. Late summer-autumn 43 BC. AR Quinarius (12.5mm, 1.65 g, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Winged bust of Victory right, with the likeness of Fulvia / Lion walking right; XL to right (= 40, Antony's age at time of issue). Crawford 489/5; CRI 122; Sydenham 1160; Lyon 2; King 75; RSC 4 (Fulvia); DCA 940; RBW 1712. Toned, banker's mark on obverse, porosity, rough surfaces, a couple of edge tests. VF.


Estimate: 100 USD

Match 1:
Nomos AG > obolos 38Auction date: 20 July 2025
Lot number: 545

Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot
Lot description:


The Triumvirs. Mark Antony, late summer-autumn 43 BC. Quinarius (Silver, 12 mm, 1.74 g, 2 h), Military mint traveling with Mark Antony and Lepidus in Transalpine Gaul. M (ANT) IMP [Lituus], capis, and raven standing left on ground line. Rev. Victory standing right, holding palm frond, crowning trophy with wreath. Crawford 489/4. CRI 121. King 74. Sydenham 1159. Toned. Porous surfaces, otherwise, about very fine.

From the collection of James Lamb acquired from Aureo & Calico 422, 12 December 2023, 2123.

Starting price: 100 CHF

Match 2:
Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 580Auction date: 5 February 2025
Lot number: 508

Price realized: 550 USD   (Approx. 533 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. Late summer-autumn 42 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.84 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Antony in Italy. Bare head of Antony right, wearing beard; lituus to left / Radiate head of Sol right. Crawford 496/2; CRI 127; Sydenham 1170; RSC 68; RBW 1754. Lightly toned with luster, scratches, reverse slightly off center. Good Fine.


Estimate: 300 USD

Match 3:
Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions > Auction 331Auction date: 27 March 2025
Lot number: 461

Price realized: 35 EUR   (Approx. 38 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Mark Antony, Quinarius, 42 BC; AR (1,72 g; 14,3 mm; 11 h)
Mint: Lugdunum. Winged bust of Victory right, with the likeness of Fulvia; Rv. Lion walking right; DVNI (retrograde and inverted) above, [LVGV in exergue]; A to left, [XL] to right (= 40, Antony's age at time of issue). Crawford 489/5; Babelon (Fulvia) 4; Lyon 2; King 75; CRI 122; Sydenham 1160. Good fine. Scarce.

Starting price: 30 EUR

Match 4:
Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions > Auction 331Auction date: 27 March 2025
Lot number: 462

Price realized: 60 EUR   (Approx. 65 USD)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Mark Antony, Quinarius, early 42 BC; AR (1,51 g; 14 mm; 2 h)
Mint: Lugdunum. Winged bust of Victory r., with the likeness of Fulvia; Rv. Lion walking r.; above, ANTONI; below, [IMP]; on l., A; on r., [XLI]. Crawford 489/6; Babelon (Antonia) 32; Sydenham 1163. Near very fine.

Starting price: 30 EUR

Match 5:
Classical Numismatic Group > Auction 129Auction date: 13 May 2025
Lot number: 473

Price realized: 1,850 USD   (Approx. 1,657 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


The Triumvirs. Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Autumn 34 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.76 g, 12h). Alexandria mint(?). Bare head of Mark Antony right; Armenian tiara to left / Diademed and draped bust of Cleopatra right; at point of bust, prow right. Crawford 543/1 note; CRI 345; Sydenham 1210 var. (rev. legend); RSC 1c; RBW –. Lightly toned, porosity, scratches, off center on reverse. Near VF.

The consensus of opinion on the date and mint of this coin was relatively uniform until the publication by R. Newman, "A Dialogue of Power in the Coinage of Antony and Octavian" in AJN 2 (1990), pp. 37-64. Sear (CRI) follows Newman in calling it an issue from Alexandria struck for Antony's Armenian triumph of the autumn of 34 BC, when the "celebrated and enigmatic" (per Sear) "Donations of Alexandria" took place. Newman states the minting of this coin "must have taken place in 34, the year of Antony's Alexandrian triumph, since it would otherwise be without context." The legends on this coin could be translated as "[coin] of Antony, with Armenia being Conquered, for Cleopatra, Queen of Kings and of her Sons, being Kings." The Armenian crown behind Antony represents his victorious Roman army, the prow beneath Cleopatra (which appears on no other Roman coin of hers) stands for the mighty Egyptian fleet; combined they symbolize the full array of forces that Antony would soon marshal against Octavian.

Estimate: 1000 USD