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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Imperators| > |Marc Antony| > SH89840
Mark Antony, Triumvir and Imperator, 44 - 30 B.C.
|Marc| |Antony|, |Mark| |Antony,| |Triumvir| |and| |Imperator,| |44| |-| |30| |B.C.|, Sol's radiate crown has been inexplicably erased by gouging and scratching. It is difficult to fathom why. Was some Roman angry because Sol failed to answer his prayer? Was it a devote of Apollo who felt that Sol was a false sun god? Did a devote of Sol take his wife as a lover? Who knows?
SH89840. Silver denarius, BMCRR II East 89 (also beardless, smaller head), RSC I 70a, Crawford 496/3, Sear CRI 129, Sydenham 1169 (very scarce), SRCV I 1468, aVF, the radiate crown of Sol has been inexplicably erased by gouging and scratching, edge cracks, weight 3.673g, maximum diameter 17.8mm, die axis 0o, Autumn 42 B.C.; obverse bare head of Mark Antony right, beardless, small head, IMP upward over lituus behind; reverse M ANTONIVS III VIR R P C (clockwise from upper right), radiate head of Sol right; military mint traveling with Antony in Greece and Asia; ex Numismatik Naumann auction 73 (6 Jan 2019), lot 443; this is the first example of this smaller head variety handled by Forum; very rare; SOLD











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