Live auction - brm_621194 - CLEOPATRA VII and MARK ANTONY Denier

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Estimate :	1 000 €
Price :	1 150 €
Maximum bid :	1 200 €
End of the sale :	08 December 2020 14:47:59
bidders :	9 bidders

Type : Denier

Date: automne

Date: c. 34 AC.

Mint name / Town : Alexandria

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰

Diameter : 20,5 mm

Orientation dies : 1 h.

Weight : 3,75 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire à l’usure importante sur un flan bien centré qui reste lisible et identifiable. Joli portrait de Marc Antoine avec une petite contremarque sur le cou. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

B.95 (Antonia) - BMC/RR.179 (East) - CRR.1210 (7) - RRC.543 /1 - RSC.1 - RCV.1515 (8000$) - CRI.345 (2500£) - C.1 (40f.) - MRR.1701 (7000€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : CLEOPATRAE REGINAE REGVM FILIORVM REGVM.

Obverse description : Buste drapé de Cléopâtre à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant ; au-dessous, base de proue de navire (L).

Obverse translation : “Cleopatræ Reginæ Regum Filiorum Regum”, (À Cléopâtre reine au-dessus des rois et de ses fils qui sont rois).

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANTONI ARMENIA DEVICTA.

Reverse description : Tête nue de Marc Antoine à droite ; derrière une petite tiare (arménienne) (O°).

Reverse translation : “Antoni Armenia Devicta”, (d’Antoine l’Arménie soumise).

Commentary

Pour ce type, M. Crawford a relevé une estimation inférieure à trente coins de droit et inférieure à trente-trois coins de revers. Pour ce type, le droit est bien le buste de Cléopâtre.

Historical background

CLEOPATRA VII and MARK ANTONY

(39-30 BC)

Cleopatra (69-30 AC. ) is the daughter of Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra VI. She succeeded her father in 51 BC.. -VS. together with her brother and husband Ptolemy XIII (51-47 AC. ). Pompey, after the defeat of Pharsalus (48 AC. ), tries to find refuge in Egypt, but is murdered at the instigation of Ptolemy XIII. Caesar arrives in Alexandria, takes the side of Cleopatra against her brother (Alexandrian War), falls under the spell of the Queen of Egypt and has a son, Caesarion, future Ptolemy XV. Cleopatra follows the conqueror to Rome, but returns to Egypt after his death in 44 BC. -VS. She then subjugates Marc Antoine, Caesar's lieutenant and partner of Octave and Lépide in the second triumvirate. She has several children, including Ptolemy Philadelphus. The war becomes inevitable between Rome and Egypt from the proclamation of the "donation of Alexandria", where Marc Antoine projects to restore the lagide power in the East. Antony and Cleopatra are defeated at Actium in 31 BC. -VS. Antoine commits suicide the following year and Cleopatra, in order not to appear in Octave's triumph, prefers to kill herself with an asp.. Caesarion is put to death by Octavian. Seen from the East, the couple Marc Antoine and Cléopâtre is mythical, just like the one she forms with César.