NEWP: Lovely green, silvered Campgate of Constantius II

The gorgeous, even, green patina of this coin flecked with remnants of the silvering grabbed my finger and made me click on BIN. There was nothing I could do to stop it!

OBVERSE: Radiate Constantius II facing left, FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C.

REVERSE: Campgate with two turrets, PROVIDENTIAE CAESS, SMHE. in exergue. Minted in Heraclea.

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extremely coin. Good on ya :thumb:

 

Gorgeous!

 

That's suppose to read: Extremely nice coin.

 

Thanks Bing. I was wondering what adjective you had in mind there, lol.

 

Sometimes my mind works much faster than my typing fingers.

 

very pretty campgate...i likes me some campgates. :yes:

 

JA, i love that green color on coins, makes the details jump right off the coin....very nice...:thumb::thumb:

 

Really nice looking coin. Don't blame you for clicking the BIN lightning fast.

 

An attractive coin for sure!

 

Excellent coin, excellent photo (although I really prefer a neutral background).

I like the idea of placing the ID text on the image but each of us might differ on what we see fit to include. I may have to give this some thought but the idea of going back and adding it to every one of my coins is a bit scary. In particular, I might add a date or date range for the coin when it is not the same as the reign dates. I'm away from my RIC now so I don't have the date at hand but it is a decade before Constantius II became Augustus (337-361 is his Augustus period but the coin is as Caesar). How do others of you handle this matter? do you record more specific dates or just consider all Constantius II issues to be 337-361?

 

It's a beauty.

 

I learned something from a dougsmit post here at CT some time ago. He mentioned that the Weber Grills on the top the gate or building were used to communicate. Fires were built in the Weber Grills and they were used to make signals much like Morse code.

 

That's a, well...ancient technique, used throughout history until the advent of electricity. However, I didn't know they were represented on the campgate design - catalog descriptions simply call them turrets.

 

While this may very well be true, I believe it is only a theory.

 

The turrets do look like Weber Grills and I read it on the Internet so it must be true.

I did want to add that it is a nice looking coin & excellent photo.