🪙 A ROMAN STATESMEN
ADMIRAL AND PIRATE
A name almost forgotten in history, who knew all the most important figures from the late Roman Republic era.
Roman Republic. 41-40 B.C.E. AHENOBARBUS Imperator.
Silver denarius of 3 grams, 20 mm.
Minted in the Adriatic Sea or Ionian Sea region
During his piracy era.
Obverse, bare head with slender features. AHENOBAR
Reverse, the prow of the galley surrounded by trophies. CN DOMITIVS
Ginaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, like his father, was a supporter
of Pompey the Great in the civil war of 49-48 B.C.E
Being on the losing side of the war, he was lucky enough to get a pardon from Caesar. Uncertainty remains if he was involved in the assassination, he did, however, flee with Brutus and was condemned as a suspected assassin in 43 B.C.E. Commanding the Republican fleet at the battle of Philippi, his day one victory gave him the title ‘imperator’. His victory was for a lost cause and after the death of Brutus, he embarked on a piracy campaign with seventy ships. Pardoned again and appointed governor of Bithynia, during the next civil he was on Marc Antony’s side until he was alarmed by Cleopatra’s power, he switched sides and joined Octavian before the fateful battle of Actium, and died of fever soon after.
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