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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4682211, member: 110350&quot;][USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER], I enjoyed seeing all of your examples.&nbsp; A couple of comments: First. Sear and other authorities generally divide these coins into four types, not three, by dividing your first category into two groups: the original coin (weighing something around 16 g.), and its first re-issue circa 16 BCE, supposedly in connection with a visit by Augustus to Gaul (weighing approximately 12.5 g., but otherwise very similar). You didn&#039;t mention the weight of your first example, so I can&#039;t tell which group it belongs to.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, the authorities are divided on the question of whether the wreath Augustus wears beginning with Type III (your second group) is a laurel wreath or an oak wreath.&nbsp; RPC and Sear&#039;s RCV both identify it as a laurel wreath.&nbsp; RIC (carried over into OCRE) and Sear&#039;s earlier <i>Greek Imperial Coins</i> catalog both identify it as an oak wreath.&nbsp; Usually the two kinds of wreaths aren&#039;t that difficult to tell apart, and the one on my example looks more like an oak wreath to me, but it&#039;s not so easy to identify the wreath as one or the other on a number of examples I&#039;ve seen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, another easy way to tell the last group from the others, besides the addition of the P P, is the fact that the tip of the palm tree leans left for the first time, instead of to the right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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