
AN ANTIQUE MARBLE BUST. 423 
“ In adopting this opinion I have been led by the best of all guides, an in- 
scribed coin, of the second brass series, not very uncommon. 
“ My colleague, Mr Oldfield, agrees with me in thinking, that the coins and 
the photographs are as similar as could possibly be expected. 
“ T have the honour, &c., 
“ T. Burgon.” 
How interesting this revelation at the eleventh hour, and how curiously it 
dovetails into what I had written! It may be remembered that I had mentioned 
the likeness of Octavia to Augustus,—the treatment of the hair peculiar to that 
age,—and the accordance of her character with the bust; but all these remarks 
are quite as applicable to her daughter. They were both of them singularly 
beautiful, singularly amiable, and singularly unfortunate, as I had remarked; 
and what I regretted as wanting for Octavia, the evidence of coins, has been 
found for Antonia Augusta by the industry of Mr Burgon and his colleague. On 
their authority we may safely say, that the scale preponderates for ANTONIA 
Aucusta ; and so the question may be considered as set at rest, and the riddle of 
the bust solved. 
