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Message:: [QUOTE="Finn235, post: 4750556, member: 98035"]Beautiful coins, all! It is true that the laurel doesn't last very long after Constantine began using the diadem - I can imagine that wearing a jeweled headband was a lot more fun than a sticky tree branch, anyway. Here's some of my late laureates Constantine - Laureate *and* helmeted (always thought this was an odd combo)[ATTACH=full]1160095[/ATTACH] Crispus[ATTACH=full]1160098[/ATTACH] Constantine II, as Augustus (I think that's laureate? A bit hard to tell on such a small coin)[ATTACH=full]1160094[/ATTACH] Constantius II as Caesar[ATTACH=full]1160099[/ATTACH] Constans, "Blessed Caesar"[ATTACH=full]1160096[/ATTACH] Delmatius[ATTACH=full]1160097[/ATTACH] Two that we didn't cover already - Probably after Constantine's death, Helena and Theodora were posthumously honored, and some of their headgear can be argued to be laureate Theodora, laureate[ATTACH=full]1160100[/ATTACH] And Vetranio[ATTACH=full]1160102[/ATTACH] On the subject of Aurelian, he not only minted the last circulating denarii, but the last sestertii, too Denarius[ATTACH=full]1160105[/ATTACH] AE laureate, variously claimed to be an as or a reduced sestertius[ATTACH=full]1160106[/ATTACH] Interestingly, he was far from the last to issue denarii - in fact, the Leu auction has denarii of both Diocletian and Maximian! Nearly every emperor between Aurelian and Diocletian minted them on at least a small scale for ceremonial purposes.[/QUOTE]