This coin from Constantinus II, struck in Trier, ric 7 nr 455, bust B4l, obv. constantinusivnnobc, rev. providen-tiaecaess, mintmark PTR, weight 2.67 gr, diameter 18.50 mm, thickness 1.66 mm has a peculiar filling in of all the stones in the camp gate. The star above it also looks more like a sphere as with the beata tranquillitas series. Maybe it was an artistic die cutter who made this? Please feel free to post your strang campgate coins. Thanks, sky92880
Strange coin - very neat! My first thought is that it has to be unofficial because of those unusual elements, but if so it's extremely well done.
Hi Ben, Thanks for your answer, you are probably right. The text on the front does end with nobc, it is difficult to read as both the o and the b have been changed. Given the well-formed text in front of it, I suspect that 2 people worked on it. When I read the text outer inside ( coin in hand ), it reads avc. Difficult to explain, but I can't capture it on a photo.
Reviving this older thread and sharing this I was just reading an abstract of Woods, D. (2017) 'The late Roman 'camp gate' reverse type and the sidus salutare', Numismatic Chronicle, 177, pp. 159-174 at https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/9602?show=full. There he writes: "The so-called camp gate reverse type proved popular on late Roman coinage from the reign of Diocletian (284-305) until that of Valentinian III (425-55). It is argued here that the traditional description of the structure on these coins as a camp gate is incorrect, and that in the vast majority of cases it is a city gate." If this is correct, I'll have to change my descriptions of camp gate coins
