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<p>[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 2719395, member: 83956"]I took a moment and grabbed a few images of Roman signal beacons vs. fortification or city gates just for a quick and unscientific "eye test" of these coins. It does seem that the signal beacon is typically freestanding, though I don't know if reconstructions of freestanding beacons mean that <i>castra </i>gates could not also use this signalling system.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin reverse seems visually closer to the city gate image to me, though Dahm strongly disagrees, and he's put in a lot of research. The motif of the doorway, which is developed numismatically in a host of ways and can be quite large, seems more consistent with a fortification gate than a freestanding signal beacon, which would not need such a doorway. But maybe I'm seeing what I want to see in these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]615551[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]615552[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 2719395, member: 83956"]I took a moment and grabbed a few images of Roman signal beacons vs. fortification or city gates just for a quick and unscientific "eye test" of these coins. It does seem that the signal beacon is typically freestanding, though I don't know if reconstructions of freestanding beacons mean that [I]castra [/I]gates could not also use this signalling system. The coin reverse seems visually closer to the city gate image to me, though Dahm strongly disagrees, and he's put in a lot of research. The motif of the doorway, which is developed numismatically in a host of ways and can be quite large, seems more consistent with a fortification gate than a freestanding signal beacon, which would not need such a doorway. But maybe I'm seeing what I want to see in these coins. [ATTACH=full]615551[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]615552[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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