Mark Antony Fleet coinage help......

dougdann

Most references I find are of AR denarius.
This is a bronze AE 17 X 19 mm.
Looks like a Mark Antony fleet coin, but I can't find a bronze of this.

ob: Legionary eagle between standards
Can't make out the legionary number
re: IIIVIRRPC
Ship

There were bronzes struck, but of this particular type?
Can anyone guide me in the right direction?


Thankyou,

Doug

lordmarcovan

Interesting.

I take it that they did some underwater archaeology on some shipwrecks from the Battle of Actium, then?

Neato. I wasn't aware of that.

I have Sear but there are plenty here who are more handy with using it, and the references you mentioned are probably from that, anyway.

Civitas? Aethelred?

harasha

I might speculate that the item you have may have been a fourre. A contemporary counterfeit? The base metal would have been plated, or washed, with silver.

coachleonard

As harasha said, there is a lot of precedent for this being a fouree. Unlike later contemporary counterfeits,
it was official moneyers (from what i read) who were responsible for many of these silver-plated bronze coins in ancient times! I have one such fouree-- a bronze ( the silver plating has worn off ) fouree of an
elephant-design julius caesar denarius.

dougdann

That was one of my guesses.
But being unsure of all the coinage and denominations at that point with Antony, I wasn't sure.

Alot of fourrees show in these unclean lots.
I read various thoughts on these types. Some will claim the fourrees are unofficial and by frgers. With the exception of a few different eras that they did them officially for whatever reason.
Others will state that they are official.
Same type of views on the Limes denarii's.

I cleaned a Caesar Elephant reverse also. Too bad it was broken.
Too bad this next one is also broken.

Justinain I , VICTORIA AVGVSTORVM






Thankyou,

Doug