Catalogue information

LastDodo number
6106193
Area
Coins
Title
Egypt - Roman Empire Legionary Denarius 32-31 BCE
Face value
Year
-32
Variety / overstrike
Type
Designer
Series
Theme
Material
Gold- or silver content
Weight
3.07
Diameter
17
Thickness
Punch
Shape
Obverse
ANT AVG III VIR R P C. Galère trirème voguant à droite avec l'acrostolium .Marques de certains banquiers sur l'avers.
Reverse
LEG VI. Aigle légionnaire, tournée à droite entre deux étendards. - Exemplaire bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau droit où tous les détails sont visibles. La galère est particulièrement bien venue à la frappe, hauts reliefs. Type rare. R1
Edge
Privy mark
Mint mark
Number produced
Krause and Mishler number
Catalogue number
Craw 544/14; Syd. 1216; Kestner 3842; BMCRR East 190; RSC 27
Details

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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