No camp without a gate

It was here on CoinTalk that I learned to value campgate coins. When I had decided to get myself a few, it was not so easy as I had thought to lay hands on one with fine quality (probably because you all are collecting the same).

Later I found one of Valentinian III (on vcoins), and this week arrived a beauty from Frank Robinson's auction. And so there are six here on the table. The 2018 Robinson is bottom right in the pictures. Bottom left (with the dot in the field left of the campgate) I won in his auction in 2017.

 

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I'll add one for good measure - nice coins @Pellinore

 

Great coins, good collecting theme as there is so many styles of the same type.

 

I really like campgates and yours are looking good! I agree it's hard to find decent ones at decent prices.

 

Nice job @Pellinore ... GREAT looking Campgate LRB's!

I have VIII and his Regent, but not in Campgate:


RI Valentinian III 425-455 CE AE 9mm Rome mint
(Hey, it DOES look a little like @Valentinian ! ) Just jokes...


RI Aelia GALLA PLACIDIA Augusta Regent for Valentinian III 423-437 CE mother of Theodosius Æ4 Bust E - cross CID visible ex FSR 102

But, here's a Campgate...

RI Constantine I CE 306-337 Æ Follis 19mm 3.2g Siscia CE 326-7 AVG Laureate R - PROVIDENTIAE AVGG Camp gate 2 turrets no door star RIC 200
Ex: The Gate Closer - @John Anthony

 

Awesome coins @Pellinore! I reallly like Valentinian III one. Here are some of my recent gates:

Roman Imperial: Licinius I (308-324) Æ Follis, Heraclea (RIC VII 15; Sear 15264; Hunter 113)

Obv: IMP LICI-NIVS AVG; laureate bust left, wearing consular robes, holding mappa and globe
Rev: PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG three-towered camp gate; no doors; HTΓ in exergue




Roman Imperial: Licinius I (308-324) Æ Follis, Heraclea (RIC VII 48)

Obv: IMP LICI-NIVS AVG; Laureate and draped bust right, holding globe, sceptre and mappa
Rev: PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG; Three-towered camp gate; no doors; Λ in right field; SMHB in exergue

 

Wow, those Liciniuses are great! (Licinii I should say).

 

Nice coins, I like them.

Does anyone know why some of them have a star on top? (or any best guess perhaps?)

 

And the meaning of the various dots...

 

So true. Theme must be very popular as the nice examples carry a premium typically.

 

Beautiful Campgate collection! I have only one, of Constantius II:

 

here's a campgate which is probably unofficial. It is a Valentinian III CASTRA (cf RIC X 2160) except the reverse legend is KA TRA

 

I also have an Arcadius campgate...tiny little coin

 

Here are two campgates of Flavius Victor. Neither is in good shape, so I'll post both and you can kind of piece them together in your head to get some idea of what the gates look like:


(Bronze) AE IV
Rome mint, A.D. 387-388
Obv: D N FL VIC-TOR P F AVG
Rev: SPES RO-MA-NORVM - Campgate with star between two turrets
Second coin:
[RB?] in exergue
RIC 59
13mm, 0.9g.

 

I love campgates and still have many of them on my want list. A few favorites...

CONSTANTIUS I. AR Argenteus.


CRISPUS. AE3.


VALENTINIAN II. AE4.