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Message:: [QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3085609, member: 88829"]Despite the initial assumption in this thread that donatives served to placate the military, I found it interesting that other research into the matter puts a different spin on things.  Sara Elise Phang in  Roman Military Service: Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2008) p. 194 in discussing coin typology in conjunction with the military observes: "...when Liberalitas featured on coins, the recipients were almost always civilian."<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OhI1okJ5l6MC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=roman+donatives&source=bl&ots=T6Sw81GLNJ&sig=UOC-S5Z4DguD21vmE6I9Os4KWO0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6l-rehZLbAhULh1QKHSXXD7QQ6AEIRDAE#v=onepage&q=roman%20donatives&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=OhI1okJ5l6MC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=roman+donatives&source=bl&ots=T6Sw81GLNJ&sig=UOC-S5Z4DguD21vmE6I9Os4KWO0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6l-rehZLbAhULh1QKHSXXD7QQ6AEIRDAE#v=onepage&q=roman%20donatives&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=OhI1okJ5l6MC&pg=PA195&lpg=PA195&dq=roman donatives&source=bl&ots=T6Sw81GLNJ&sig=UOC-S5Z4DguD21vmE6I9Os4KWO0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi6l-rehZLbAhULh1QKHSXXD7QQ6AEIRDAE#v=onepage&q=roman donatives&f=false</a> If we assume  non-military distribution for the OP coins, what would you make of them?[/QUOTE]