https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/in...s_in_laurel_wreath_scarce/167677/Default.aspx AUGUSTUS AE 26mm 'as', struck at Antioch. CAESAR, bare head right. Reverse - AVGVSTVS in laurel wreath. RPC 4100. Scarce. 25mm, 9.6g.
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=290772 ASIA. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 25mm (10.84 g). Ephesus mint. Struck circa 25 BC. are head right / AVGVSTVS within wreath. RIC I 486; RPC I 2235. VF, grey-green patina, light smoothing. Ex Classical Numismatic Group E74, lot 53.
RIC attributes Ephesus as the mint, RPC says Asia, "Provincial" issue. Both references use the same dating though 27 - 23 BC. Tziambazis believes it to be of Cypriot origin. Needless to say, the scattered evidence found makes the coin remain an enigma. If the "G" in "AVGVSTVS" has a tail, it is from Syria, Antioch (RPC I 4100). But if the "G" does not have a tail, it is not from Syria (RPC I 2235). This info is per Richard McAlee's reference on Antiochene coinage, p. 116.
It's good that this coin has some kind of mystery in this case, the place of its minting. But apparently by the number of finds it is not rare.