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Message:: [QUOTE="cmezner, post: 7592219, member: 87809"]BMC (and also Babelon, Waddington 6263) assigns this type to Augustus while RPC I assigns it to Tiberius but notes the difficulty in determining if it is a coin of Augustus or Tiberius. It certainly looks like Augustus, but many portraits of Tiberius intentionally exaggerate his resemblance to Augustus. RPC's attribution of this issue to Tiberius is based on the "mature portrait", the "second issue" of this and another magistrate, and the use of "SEBASTOS". No city in southern Phrygia issues "SEBASTOS" coins with "TIBERIUS" - it is always "either-or". Also, unless the "SEBASTOS" coinage of southern Phrygia is attributed to Tiberius, a huge gap in coinage would need to be explained some other way. Together, these arguments make a reasonable case. (See RPC I, pp. 376 and 475.)[/QUOTE]