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E-auction 340-254662 - bpv_354781 - ANTONIUS and OCTAVIA As

ANTONIUS and OCTAVIA As VG
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Estimate : 120 €
Price : 42 €
Maximum bid : 50 €
End of the sale : 21 October 2019 14:54:00
bidders : 5 bidders
Type : As
Date: été
Date: 37 AC.
Mint name / Town : Tarente
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 3,39 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré à l’usure très importante, identifiable. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection MG

Obverse


Obverse legend : [M. ANT IMP. TERT COS. DESIG ITER ET TERT III.
Obverse description : Têtes accolées de Marc Antoine et d’Octavie nues.
Obverse translation : “Marcus Antonius Imperator Tertium Consul Designatus Iterum et tertium”, (Marc Antoine Imperator pour la troisième fois consul désigné pour la deuxième fois et la troisième fois consécutive).

Reverse


Reverse legend : M. OPPIVS CAPITO PRO PR PRAEF CLASS. F C / A.
Reverse description : Galère voguant à droite ; au-dessous, marque de valeur et petite tête de Méduse.
Reverse translation : “Marcus Oppius Capito Pro Prætore Præfectus Classis.

Commentary


Série légère. Poids léger. Pour ce type les auteurs du Roman Provincial Coinage ont recensé 116 exemplaires avec un poids moyen de 3,91 g et trente coins de droit.

Historical background


ANTONIUS and OCTAVIA

(39-32 BC)

Octavie is Octave's sister. She marries Marcellus, consul in 50 BC. -VS. who died in 40 BC. -VS. It was at this precise moment that Octave reconciled with Marc Antoine at Brindisium. One of the clauses of the treaty provides for the marriage of Octave's sister to Marc Antoine. Marc Antoine married Octavie in 39 or 38 BC. -VS. He spends the following years in the East and already has a guilty relationship with Cleopatra. After the interview at Athens in 37 BC. -VS. , it is still Octavie who reconciles her brother and her husband, and negotiates the peace of Taranto. Shortly after, Marc Antoine abandons his wife and goes to find Cleopatra in Egypt, whom he ends up marrying and who gives him several children.. Finally, Antony decides to repudiate Octavia in 32 BC.. -VS. , to Octave's annoyance. After the publication of Antoine's will, conflict became inevitable.. The clash takes place at Actium on September 2, 31 BC. -VS. The following year, Marc Antoine and Cleopatra committed suicide.. Octave has Caesarion put to death, but Octavie manages to save the children of Antony and Cleopatra, including the future Cleopatra Selene, wife of Juba II. Very pious, Octavie died in 11 BC. -VS.

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