Denarius - Mark Antony ANT•AVG III•VIR•R•P•C / LEG•XVIII•LYBICAE

Struck in the field to pay Antony's legions during the buildup to Actium, these legionary denarii were produced in enormous numbers across a mobile mint — likely following Antony's forces through Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. The silver content was deliberately debased relative to contemporary Caesarian issues, a fact Roman soldiers would have recognized and resented. Legion XVIII Lybicae takes its cognomen from its service in Libya, one of the fewer geographically-named legions in the series.

The type circulated for decades after Actium, turning up in hoards well into Augustus's reign — ironic given that the victor systematically erased Antony's name from public monuments.