The first of the classic Shure's was the Shure V15 that arrived on the hifi scene in 1964, that cartridge is named after it's VTA of 15° and the descendants of this cartridge are still manufactured to this day, it featured a biradial elliptical stylus (0,0002x0,0009).
It was replaced with the Shure V15 Type II in 1966, main improvements were in trackability according to the Shure website. The Type II Improved was introduced in 1970 and had a slightly improved element and a better stylus.
The Shure V15 Type III was introduced in 1974 and it had a new pole piece and that amongst with other improvements meant that it had a 25% less effective mass than the Type II, you could also get it in a more expensive version called V15-IIIHE with an Hyper elliptical stylus.
The later and more modern Shure V15 Type IV was introduced in 1978 and it has a better stylus than the previous model (an hyper elliptical as the IIIHE had), it's also the first in the line that has the "Dynamic Stabilizer" damper brush that we have come to associate with classic V15's, the V15 Type V version had a Beryllium cantilever and a differently cut stylus, the year after that the company introduced a more upmarket version called V15 Type V-MR that was identical to the V but featured a Micro-Ridge line contact stylus.
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