First Portrait Issue of Mark Antony

Triton XVI, Lot: 929. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Mark Antony. April-May 44 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.60 g, 2h). Rome mint. P. Sepullius Macer, moneyer. Veiled head right, wearing beard; capis to left, lituus to right / Desultor (horseman who leaps from one horse to another), wearing conical cap and holding whip, right on horseback, second horse behind; [palm frond] and wreath to left; P • SEPVLLIVS above, MACER below. Crawford 480/22; Alföldi Type XXI, – (A9a/R– [unlisted rev. die]); CRI 142; RSC 74; Sydenham 1077; Kestner –; BMCRR Rome 4178. Good VF, toned, areas of weak strike. Overstruck on an uncertain issue.

From the Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection. Ex Peus 393 (31 October 2007), lot 474.