While most of you know that I do love my Republican coins, I've actually always really enjoyed the variety available with Later Roman Imperials as well. The amount of variety available on the market at any given time is quite attractive as well. The following campgate is not a rare or even scarce type by any stretch but I thought it had a lot of eye appeal and it also added a Rome mint LRB to my collection, which for whatever reason had eluded me for a while. Roman Imperial AE3(2.55g, 19mm), Constantine II as Caesar, 326 AD, Rome mint. CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C, laureate draped and cuirassed bust left/PROVIDENTIAE CAESS, camp gate with 8 levels, two turrents and star above. Mintmark R wreath T. Rome RIC VII 289 Please share anything similar!
Lovely all around, but I particularly like the big, fat, well-detailed wreath in the mint mark. They can get pretty scrawny and just look like amorphous blobs. You could hang that one on your lintel come Christmas.
That's a lot of what drew me to this coin. I've seen a lot that just had an amorphous blob or a wreath that just looked like a horseshoe. It was nice to find one with a little more detail.
That's a sweet OP-score, red_spork (*edit ooops, sorry Red*) ... I like the two turrents and star (cool details)
Love the details on that beauty 'Red' !! For whatever reason, I also seem to lack the type but I do have this low-grade example of Magnus Maximus with a similar campgate reverse sorry best I can do at the moment):
