Not just another campgate! This coin checks off several of my collecting desires. It's a small-bust version that's very delicately rendered - the engraver had the artistry to give little Licinius boyish features. It also adds a three-turret campgate to my type set, and I can't resist an LRB with this much silvering intact. I posted the seller's image of this coin in the Bruck thread, but here is my own. I typically have a tough time imaging silvered coins, but this one came out pretty well. Doug mentioned how many of these campgates exist with full silvering, particularly from Heraclea, and after looking through Wildwinds, I see that he is right. Perhaps they were all part of a large, uncirculated and well-protected hoard?
Thanks Martin. Yes, many if not most of the small portraits are merely shrunken versions of adult busts. This one was appealing because it's actually a bust of a child.
Hi JA. I couldn't stop myself to post this coin of Licinius in which the engraver showed a totally different face of the Emperor. Hope I'm not wrong. Anyway I feel this coin has got some importance, especially on the reverse. Here it is..
It's not Licinius, it's Valerian. Both Valerian and Gallienus also had the name Licinius: Publius Licinius Valerianus Augustus, and Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus Augustus.
Another campgate I own, which I acquired purely for its eye appeal. It has a lovely aqua-green patina with traces of silvering that make it shimmer, which is of course impossible to capture in a still image, but you get the idea, Constantius II...
Thanks a lot JA. I could have never guessed with those letters L I C at the beginning. As for the campgates that you seem liking a bit, well here are 2 related coins that I recently acquired.
Atta-boy, JA => that's a sweet Licinius II (congrats) sadly, I don't have an example to toss into your cool thread Cheers
