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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Macedonia| > |Philippi| > RP87430
Mark Antony, Triumvir and Imperator, 44 - 30 B.C., Philippi, Macedonia
|Philippi|, |Mark| |Antony,| |Triumvir| |and| |Imperator,| |44| |-| |30| |B.C.,| |Philippi,| |Macedonia|, The colony at Philippi was founded in 42 B.C. by Marc Antony. The ceremonial founding of a new Roman colony included plowing a furrow, the pomerium, a sacred boundary, around the site of the new city. Four coin types were issued to commemorate the founding. All are rare. The series ceased when the city was "refounded" by Octavian in 30 B.C.
RP87430. Bronze AE 25, RPC I 1646 (6 spec.), SNG ANS 672, BMC Macedonia -, SNG Cop -, Fair, Philippi (near Filippoi, Greece) mint, weight 8.944g, maximum diameter 24.9mm, die axis 0o, 42 B.C.; obverse A I C V P (Antoni Iussu Colonia Victrix Philippensis), bare head of Antony right; reverse pontiff (priest) driving yoke of oxen right, plowing pomerium, Q PAQVIVS / RVF C D / LEG M (Paquius Rufus, legatus coloniae ducendae) in three lines, two above, the last in exergue; rare; SOLD










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