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Denarius - Mark Antony M•ANTONI IMP / III VIR R•P•C
| Issuer | Roman Republic (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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| Year | 42 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Mint | Military mint, moving with Mark Antony |
| Mintage | ND (-42) - Military mint, moving with Mark Antony |
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Struck in 42 BC, the year Antony and Octavian crushed the Liberatores at Philippi, this issue belongs to the triumviral coinage produced to fund one of the largest military mobilizations in late Republican history — somewhere in the region of 200,000 troops between both sides. The moneyers were producing coin at a pace the permanent mints could not sustain, and much of this silver was almost certainly melted down from temple plate and war booty.
The traveling mint output from this period is notoriously inconsistent in flan quality and centering, a direct consequence of field conditions rather than any single die failing.