Featured An excellent Constantinian campgate with an important provenance

I received this one some days ago and while I tried to catalogize it I noticed that it seems not to be included in Ric.
Its a Follis minted under Constantine I. in the name of Licinius I. with the VIRTVS AVGG reverse legend around the campgate.
I'am not 100% sure about the mint cause I only could find examples of this from the Rome mint but my mintmark looks like QS so my guess would be Aquileia.

 

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Great acquisition @wittwolf! I think I've found your coin, and it indeed seems to be a rare type from the Rome mint, missing from RIC:

Here's the link to the website (http://www.notinric.lechstepniewski.info/7rom179_s.html), which is very interesting, as it lists the known types and variants that are missing from RIC VI and VII.

 

@Claudius_Gothicus Nice thank you. Rome mint it is then. No idea why they messed up the R in the mintmark like this but it seems to be not only my coin to have this problem.

 

I noticed that one too @wittwolf - nice find! There another coin in that lot I was interested in, but I couldn't bid since I'm not in Germany. I wonder if you might be able to post a picture of it? It was the Licinius Iovi from Antioch.

 

@Heliodromus Yeah its a nice little lot. The Antioch one is mainly interesting because of the strange portrait I guess? I already had some IOVI CONSERVATORI types of Licinius so the other coins where my main interest.

 

Some really nice coins out there! I chose 3 of my Constantine I camp gates. First up is a camp gate with a not to common obverse:



Constantine I: Æ Follis; Thessalonica (Officina 1)
OBV: Rosette-diademed, draped, cuirassed bust r.; CONSTAN_TINVS AVG
REV: Campgate with seven rows, two turrets, no doors, star above, top row arches and dots in blocks, bottom row empty blocks, ramp with no stairs at base;
A in r. field; PROVIDEN_TIAE AVGG. SMTS in ex. RIC VII THESS 169A R1

Second we have the coin with the most layers in my collection:




Constantine I; Æ Follis; Antioch
OBV: Diademed decorated with square rosettes head r.; CONSTAN-TINVS AVG
REV: Campgate, 2 turrets, 9 layers, star above, no doors; PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG. SMANTB in ex. RIC VII ANTIOCH 78B R4

And my third coin is a personal favorite - nice strike, well centered, nice eye appeal (to me):




Constantine I; Æ Follis; Siscia
OBV: Laureate head r.; CONSTAN-TINVS AVG,.
REV: Campgate, eight layers with dots in arches in the top layer, star above, two turrets, no doors; PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG. ΓSIS double crescent in ex. RIC VII SISCIA 215Γ

 

Thanks @wittwolf! The Antioch IOVI is interesting because of what Licinius is wearing. It looks like consular robes (trabea consularis) rather than a cuirassed bust. Constantine and Licinius were both consuls in the year this was issued, 315 AD, and for Constantine there are both cuirassed and consular busts, but I've yet to see a clear consular one for Licinius.

 

The closed-door type campgates of Constantine I and Licinius have been shown, the only one missing is that of Crispus. Here's mine:

 

@Heliodromus Ah ok I see, I guess its a detail I missed on this coin. I identified the coin as this one before: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/licinius_I/_antioch_RIC_VII_017_D.jpg
But I'am also not sure if this is really a Δ to the right of Jupiter or possibly an A.

 

@wittwolf your coin is nominally RIC VII Antioch 18 (officina A), with a cuirassed bust, like the example here:
https://www.ikmk.at/object?id=ID189695
The coin you linked is RIC 17 which has an LDC bust.
If it is a trabea consularis on your coin (hard to tell, but I think it is), not a cuirass, then it's unlisted. There's a couple more like your coin on "Not In RIC":
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/notInRic/7ant18_ai.html
I think that's also a trabea.