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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LaCointessa, post: 2872288, member: 87186&quot;]Hi coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>And I love turrets like that - I&#039;ve seen them called something else, but I forget the term.</p><p><br /></p><p>WOW! That coin is really something! So sharp!</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><b>Edited to say</b></span>: I found what was bothering me about the term turret. Perhaps I should not read so much, but I was on Beast Coins one day looking at camp gates and I read the following which is an excerpt from a book in which there is a discussion about whether the structures we see on top of camp gates are turrets or beacon towers. Beast Coins has this at:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.beastcoins.com/Topical/Architecture/Campgate.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.beastcoins.com/Topical/Architecture/Campgate.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.beastcoins.com/Topical/Architecture/Campgate.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Campgate Theory Discussion - Victor Failmezger, 07/30/2003</u></p><p><br /></p><p><u>Author of &quot;Roman Bronze Coins&quot;, Ross &amp; Perry Inc., 2002</u></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;As you know, I believe that they are signal/watchtowers.&nbsp; We need to break off the obvious city gates (four Emperors sacrificing and those earlier ones) from these common Constantinian (Licinian) bronze coins and review what we have left.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember that, during this time, there was a complete reorganization of the army and the idea was that the standing army would be a mobile force, with auxiliary troops, stationed on the frontiers (Limes).&nbsp; The only thing that would make this work would be the ability to rapidly communicate threats across the empire to send in the mobile troops, hence the need for rapid and quick communications.&nbsp; The most common legend, foresight of the augustus (caesar) is a nice bit of propaganda to say that these signal towers allow the Emperor to respond to these attacks.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you might have guessed, in more than 16 years of living in Europe, I have visited many of the remains of forts, limes and roman watchtowers and am impressed how, in some locations, almost every hill has the remains of these towers.&nbsp; So, for me there is no question that they are signal towers.&nbsp; Don&#039;t forget the literary evidence I cited in my book on the ability of the Romans to send signals and the drawing I did for the Celator article from Trajan&#039;s Column showing the burning signal torch.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is a great deal to learn and think about with this coin stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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