Marcus Antonius (in part with Marcus Lepidus), silver quinarius, 1.66 g.

Marcus Antonius (in part with Marcus Lepidus), silver quinarius, 1.66 g.

Marcus Antonius; Marcus Lepidus

43 - 42 BCE

Obverse: Bust of Victory right; around , III VIR [R P C].

Reverse: Lion walking right; above, [AN]TONI; below, [I]MP; to right, XLI.

Style/Period: Roman Republic

This coin was issued by Marc Antony while proconsul of Gaul. He struck the coin on behalf of Lepidus after the two of them united on 30 May 43/42 BCE as III VIR R P C (triumvir reipublicae constituendae) with Octavian. The bust on the obverse may be Fulvia, the wife of Marc Antony. On the reverse, the number XLI refers to the age of Marc Antony that year, 41. He was born on 14 January 83 BCE.
-- Bradford W. Wendel, LU '96

Bibliography: J. Eckhel, Doctrina Numorum Veterum (Vienna 1828) pt. II vol. 6, 38-40; E. Babelon, Description historique et chronologique des monnaies de la republique romaine (Paris and London 1885-1886) Antonia, 32; H. A. Grueber, Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum (London 1910), II, 396, no. 48; E. A. Sydenham, The Coinage of the Roman Republic (London 1952) 189, no. 1163; M. H. Crawford, Roman Republican Coinage (London 1974) 498-499, no. 489/6.

Classics Department Collection

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