Was the Grass Crown still waiting to be won?

All of which hardly seemed real; but there in its box lay the Grass Crown, a testament to reality.

This is my day, he told himself as the huge crowd sighed and then voiced its approval at sight of the Grass Crown.

Cheering the man wearing the Grass Crown, a wreath most of them had never seen.

Until you won the Grass Crown, he was always the only one.

He had led them himself for close to two years, they had given him his Grass Crown.

A bit like awarding yourself a Grass Crown after your men saved you, not the other way around.

The next book in the series is tentatively titled The Grass Crown.

And my Grass Crown was polluted when it fell into the blood the black dog drank.

Pliny the Elder states that he was awarded the Grass Crown.