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272 E. A. SYDENHAM.Claudius are executed in low relief, although theirflatness is not of the ugly inartistic quality thatcharacterizes the later copper coins of Augustus.No DIVVS AVGVSTVS coins of Class II werestruck during the reign of Claudius, but we find aseries of memorial coins bearing portraitsof NeroDrusus (/Sestertius,Coh. 8),Antonia (Dupondius, Coh. 6),and Germanicus (As, Coh. 9).Whether or not these portraits are accurate likenessesmay be open to question, since it is evident that theirtreatment is modal, that is to say, the features ofre-Drusus, Antonia, and Germanicus show a strongsemblance to one another, and also to those of Claudius.Precisely the same modal treatment is observed inthe following dupondius, which consequently may beassigned without question to the Claudian period :10. Obv.- DIVA AVCVSTA. Livia, as Ceres, seated.Rev. DIVVS AVCVSTVS. Kadiatehead of Augustus1., between S-C.M2D (Coh. 93). Av. wt. 250 grains.is sufficiently marked to prove that they belong to thereign of Caligula rather than to that of Tiberius.The coinage of Claudius differs considerably in pointof style from that of his predecessor. Here the " semi-Greek" element is entirely absent. The portraits ofIn its more general features this coin correspondswith the preceding example of Caligula. That is tosay, it is of the same denomination and weight, theword PATER is omitted, and the S C appears inthe same position. On the other hand, the head ofDivus A ugustus has lost the traditional features shownon the coins issued by Tiberius and Caligula, and