Ancient Roman silver coin of Marc Antony - Legion III

Cerberus Coins presents an Ancient Roman coin of Marc Antony - lover of Cleopatra VII

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Size:  16x19mm  Weight:  3.3 grams   Minted: 32/21BC in Egypt

Obverse: ANT AVG III VIR R P C, Galley right.

Reverse: LEG III, Legionary eagle (aquila) between two standards.

Antony, Mark (correctly Marcus Antonius), (83-30 bc), Roman general and political leader who took part in the final destruction of the republic. Born in 83 bc, he served under Julius Caesar in Gaul and in the Roman civil war of 49-45 bc, and was consul when Caesar was assassinated in 44. In the following year, he formed the Second Triumvirate with Octavian and Lepidus. After his victory at Philippi, he took control of the east to campaign against the Parthians. Having reorganized the eastern empire into three provinces and five client kingdoms, he invaded Armenia in 37, but was forced to withdraw in 36 with disastrous losses. He reinvaded successfully in 34, but the propaganda value of this was negated by the quasi-triumph he held at Alexandria and his granting of client kingdoms to his mistress Cleopatra and their children. Octavian finally declared war on Cleopatra in 31 bc, leading to Antony's defeat in the naval battle off Actium in Greece. Antony and Cleopatra fled to Egypt where they took their own lives a year later.