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Message:: [QUOTE="Mike Margolis, post: 3222061, member: 88401"]nice provenance- cool coin Andrew.Here is an outlier of these Augustus assarions of Antioch. Forgot who here at CT wrote this note about it when I posted it. It has a ten-leafed wreath instead of the usual 8 and the legend on the front is different. Never have found one like it yet."I didnt look as closely to your coin at first, now I think [USER=76835]@TTerrier[/USER] has it right and it probably is closer to RPC4247 as I believe the portrait is laureate. So, you might call it RPC 4247 var. (as yours have 10 leaves and not 8). Nevertheless, I think the number of leaves are akin to counting the number of bricks on a Constantinian campgate.One possible reference for this one would be McAlee 192(a) from "The Coins of Roman Antioch", a great reference if you like coins of Antioch. The author notes that this would be RPC 4102 but that RPC has the legend wrong in that they omitted the IMP before the AVGVST. This coin has a bare head.The other possibility is McAlee 206(a) which has a laureate bust, RPCSupp. 1 S-4247A.There are differences in bust styles between the two but the easiest way to differentiate is whether there is a tie behind the head. There seems to be a hint of one on the OP but I'm not sure.Interesting coin!"[ATTACH=full]839114[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]