Awesome campgates everyone. it's funny, that for years I have loved campgates, but have never really specifically collected them...campgates...
I have many coins I have not even looked at yet; much less forgotten. I was lucky enough to acquire a few entire collections of unofficial Siscian...
campgate overload in this thread! here's a fairly recent addition with a dot in the archway...perhaps merely a centering dot. Nicely silvered--...
unofficial campgates matter too! [ATTACH] Constantine I Circa A.D. 325-6 18mm 2.3g Arles mint mintmark ARTS
Two of my favorite campgates...which I've shown more than once already. [ATTACH] Maximinus II, as Caesar, BI Nummus. Cyzicus, circa AD 308....
A lot of ancient coins have globes representing the cosmos. Two coins from Constantine I with BEATA TRANQVILLITAS reverses with a globe on altar...
Hello Jim, If that is the correct obverse and reverse, your coin is Theodosius I, RIC 62b, A workshop, not listed in RIC.
I might have campgate envy :D [ATTACH] and another meme from American Psycho [ATTACH]
Introducing my latest campgate, it's not special because of the rows (a meager 6), but it's not in RIC. The reverse is pretty cool with open...
This campgate has fifteen rows...I can't recall seeing an example with more, though I only casually note the rows...paying too much attention to...
another Jupiter [ATTACH] Licinius I A.D. 317-320 18x20mm 3.8g IMP LICI-NIVS AVG; laureate and trabeate bust left holding mappa, orb &...
Yes, your first coin that you posted is Mars also rather than Virtvs. Virtus would never run around without clothes, merely a bare breast...so...
Yours is the more proper type with cape flowing on either side. On mine it's like they didn't understand what the cape was and merely attached the...
Actually wearing boots (barely visible), helmet and some sort of belt/ girdle; which he needs as he seems a little pudgy around the midsection for...
Yes, but it was very easy to find after you made your post. In fact, I went to eBay and found it in less than 2 minutes. Searched "Carausius" and...
Posting about this coin while it was for sale on eBay was probably not a good idea...well it was a good idea for whoever won it and then cleaned...
There are other coins from the Antioch series with a cross and T, so it seems more likely the T is just a T, especially since it looks like the T...
The VLPP were not issued for a specific anniversary, but may have been celebrating all the imperial consulships or perhaps just merely generic...
here's a bit nicer example that sold in 2017...no surprise, it's an obverse die match [ATTACH]
your coin has a cross in the wreath, versus the star in wreath
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