v41_0454 - FULVIA Quinaire
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Quinaire
Date: c.
Date: 42 AC.
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 950 ‰
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 1,53 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, un peu court sur les légendes. Beau portrait de Fulvie. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
LT.4648 - RPC.513 - Giard/L1.3 - C.3 - BMC/RR.48 (Gaule) - RRC.489 /6 - CRI.126 (475$) - RCV.1519 (480$)
Obverse
Obverse legend : [III. VIR] - R. P. C..
Obverse description : Buste ailé de Victoria (la Victoire) à droite sous les traits de Fulvie.
Obverse translation : “Triumviri Rei Publicæ Constituandæ”, (Triumvirat pour la restauration du gouvernement).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANTONI// IMP ; [A] À GAUCHE ET XLI À DROITE.
Reverse description : Lion passant à droite.
Reverse translation : “Antoni Imperatori/ Anno unquarantegesimus”, (À Antoine Imperator/ quarante et unième anniversaire).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Les auteurs du Roman Provincial Coinage ont répertorié trente-deux exemplaires de ce type avec un poids moyen de 1,71 g. M. Crawford a relevé une estimation de quatorze coins de droit et de quinze coins de revers.
Historical background
FULVIA
(+40 BC)
Marc Antony's wife
Fulvia is the daughter of Marcus Fulvius and Sempronia. She married Marc Antoine in 46 BC and gave him two sons. She is also Octave's mother-in-law when he marries his daughter Claudia, Octave's first wife. She hates Octave and tries to go up against her son-in-law the consul Lucius Antoine, brother of Antoine, at the origin of the war of Perugia. Besieged, the consul is forced to surrender to Octave, who forgives him and then sends him to govern Spain, where he dies shortly afterwards. Antoine, reconciled with Octave, meets Fulvia in Athens where he reproaches her many times. Fulvia, broken, dies shortly after. The eldest son of Fulvia and Antony, Marcus Antonius Iunior (nicknamed Antyllus by the Greeks) is betrothed to Julie, daughter of Octavian, in 37 BC, during the renewal of the pact between Antony and Octavian at Taranto . Octavian has the son of Antony and Fulvia executed when he seizes Egypt in 30 BC.
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