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Message:: [QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2493026, member: 57495"]This one dates to 19-18 BC, when he was in his mid-40s. [ATTACH=full]527955[/ATTACH]AUGUSTUSMoneyers' SeriesAR Denarius. 3.64g, 19.9mm, Rome mint, 19-18 BC, P. Petronius Turpilianus, moneyer.  RIC 297 (R2).  O: CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right.  R: P PETRON TVRPILIAN III VIR, Pegasus walking right. Augustus came to be very conscious about how his image was projected, so on most of his coinage, what the average Roman saw was what he wanted them to see.  Even his very last issues (like the ones with the 'Tribute Penny' reverse) tend to show a good-looking man in the prime of his life rather than a decrepit one in his mid-70s.  I find interesting his portraits as Octavian, particularly the earlier ones, when many probably still wrote him off as a young upstart with little future.  For example, it's clear to see on the Antony/Octavian double-header who was being portrayed as the man and who the boy, even when he was already 22 years old. [ATTACH=full]527956[/ATTACH]TRIUMVIRS / MARK ANTONY & OCTAVIANM. Barbatius Pollio, quaestor pro praetoreAR Denarius. 3.57g, 20.3mm. Ephesus mint, Spring-early summer 41 BC. Crawford 517/2; CRI 243; Sydenham 1181. O: M ANT IMP AVG III VIR R P C M BARBAT Q P, head of Antony right. R: CAESAR IMP PONT III VIR R P C, head of Octavian right.[/QUOTE]