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Marc Antoine had coins minted in the names of twenty-three legions, the strikes of the last six, from twenty-four to thirty, never having been seen, if they exist. The VI Legio Ferrata was created by Caesar during the Gallic Wars. Reconstructed by Lepidus in 44 BC, it was then recovered by Antoine After having broken with Octavian, Marc Antoine, joined forces with those of Cleopatra and met those of Octavian in Actium (31 BC). The Octavian fleet commanded by Agrippa won the naval battle as the Egyptian fleet fled, soon followed by Antony who withdrew to Egypt before committing suicide the following year before Octavian's arrival in Alexandria.
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