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<p>[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 7812138, member: 10613"]Though not affiliated with the other coins other than also being from Constantinople, I can't resist posting my favorite (?) campgate. It was struck immediately before the other types.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1342285[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine I</p><p>A.D. 326-327</p><p>19mm 3.4g</p><p>CONSTAN-TINVS AVG; Laureate head right.</p><p>PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG; camp gate, two turrets, no doors, • in archway, ✶ above; in left field A.</p><p>in ex. CONS</p><p>RIC VII Constantinople 7</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I should also mention that the GLORIA EXERCITVS, GLORIA ROMANORVM, LIBERTAS PVBLICA, and SPES PVBLIC come in both laureate and diademed flavors as they were struck during the period when Constantine switched over. The DAFNE only have diademed busts. Philostorgius (A.D.368 – 439 Church historian) said that Constantine began wearing the diadem as a sign "of his sole rule and Victory over opponents." (Noel Lenski, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine. Cambridge University Press, 2005, pg. 29)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 7812138, member: 10613"]Though not affiliated with the other coins other than also being from Constantinople, I can't resist posting my favorite (?) campgate. It was struck immediately before the other types. [ATTACH=full]1342285[/ATTACH] Constantine I A.D. 326-327 19mm 3.4g CONSTAN-TINVS AVG; Laureate head right. PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG; camp gate, two turrets, no doors, • in archway, ✶ above; in left field A. in ex. CONS RIC VII Constantinople 7 I should also mention that the GLORIA EXERCITVS, GLORIA ROMANORVM, LIBERTAS PVBLICA, and SPES PVBLIC come in both laureate and diademed flavors as they were struck during the period when Constantine switched over. The DAFNE only have diademed busts. Philostorgius (A.D.368 – 439 Church historian) said that Constantine began wearing the diadem as a sign "of his sole rule and Victory over opponents." (Noel Lenski, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine. Cambridge University Press, 2005, pg. 29)[/QUOTE]
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