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Message:: [QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 3215528, member: 88829"]In 308 AD Imperial production of folles for the senior Augusti (Diocletian and Maximan) was suspended, as was the coinage for Severus, hence also the coinage for Constantine was arrested.  This left the coinage for Galerius and Maximinus, to which was added the first coinage for Galeria Valeria.  This reduction in output reduced the number of active officinae to four. It is at this time the first campgate reverses in bronze are introduced, on a large, albeit reduced, follis of 6 1/4 to 7 1/2 grams.  Three officinae were devoted to Galerius, and his are the ones most familiar to collectors.  Galerius// VIRTVS MILITVMRIC VI Cyzicus 39[ATTACH=full]835933[/ATTACH] In this example the entrance through the gate has no door or other obstruction. Next is a much nicer example of the gate reverse on a coin of Maximinus II.  All these were produce from a single officina, and are not as frequently seen. Maximinus II // VIRTVS MILITVMRIC VI Cyzicus 40[ATTACH=full]835936[/ATTACH] In this example the gate opening is partly obscured by a portcullis.  This feature also appears on the same coin type for Galerius (but my example of that variety is so beatup I didn't want to show it). So these are the big brother precursors to the gates of reduced follis fame, which start with the Virtus gate reverses, but are overtaken by the Providentiae gate reverses.[/QUOTE]