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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ancient Aussie, post: 4568846, member: 80147&quot;]I was lucky enough to pick up this rare coin at the recent Gorny auction, it seems the earlier coins like this and his father&#039;s had an arched doorway and later Septimius Severus and sons had renovations and included a larger square door as my Sept/S below.[ATTACH=full]1131374[/ATTACH]</p><p>AUGUSTA TRAIANA. Commodus, 177 - 192 AD AE ø 27mm (19.57g). 191-192 AD Governor Lucius Aemilius Iustus. Obv .: ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥ ΚΟΜΟΔΟΣ, draped bust with laurel wreath rev ΗΓΕ Λ ΑΙΜ ΙΟΥΣΤ ΑΥΓΟΥ / ΣΤΗΣ ΤΡΑΙ-ΑΝΗΣ, Stadttor. Varbanov, GIC II -; RPC online IV.1 10823.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Septimius Severus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1131375[/ATTACH]</p><p>Thrace, Augusta Traiana, Septimius Severus, AE 29mm, 15.4gm, City Gate flanked by two towers, third raising from centre. Varbanov 961. R5 Varb.</p><p>ΑVT K CΠTI CΕΒΕΗΡΟC ΠΕ - Laureate and draped bust right</p><p>ΑVΓΟVCΤΗC ΤΡΑΙΑΝΗC - City gate with open door, flanked by two towers, a third tower rising up behind.</p><p><br /></p><p>Founded by the Emperor Trajan on the border between Moesia Inferior and Thrace, Augusta Traiana was provided with a strong set of city walls which figure prominently on its coinage. This great large bronze provides architectural details of the city gateway, which included three tall crenellated towers, each with its own set of arched doorways and windows, flanking the central portcullis. Fortifications such as these, only rarely featured on Roman coins of the first and early second centuries, became far more prevalent as the Empire came under unceasing attack from circa AD 162 on; by the Tetrarchy era, the &quot;camp gate&quot; had become the dominant reverse type.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>ANY CITY GATEWAY/CAMPGATE COINS OUT THERE IN CT LAND, WOULD LOVE TO SEE THEM.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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