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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 7778009, member: 86498&quot;]Octavian Ar Denarius Military mint in Illyricum? 35-34 BC Obv Head of Octavian bare Rv Round shield decorated with three concentric circles of dots. RIC 543b CRI 393. 3.98 grams 18 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1334296[/ATTACH]With this series Octavian embarked on a radical shift in how he wanted his image to be portrayed. Prior to this most of his coin images are rather simply and harshly engraved and they emphasize both his youth and his devotion to his &quot;father&quot; Julius Caesar. With this image he is moving closer to the classic image that we normally see as the image of Augustus. Here he is seen as youthful but with a calm serenity that belie his youth. As interesting to us as numismatists, the scholarship on&nbsp; this coin has a rather chequered history. Foe decades this coin was thought to have been minted at a Spanish mint likely minted sometime before 27 BC. This attribution faced more or less continual challenge and now it is thought it was minted in Illyria.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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