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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3466047, member: 74834"]What with all the campgatologists on CoinTalk (I learnt it here, to love campgates!), nobody said <i>I have a like perspectival campgate of Licinus II</i>. Pity!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a perspective temple, AE Phoenicia, Tyre, Macrinus, 217-218, Laureate bust r. Rev. Temple of the Phoenician Koinon or Melkart seen in perspective, murex shell to right. 25 mm, 7.10 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]921898[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And a double bust, not jugate, but not 3/4 either. I think this is a wonderful design, probably quite modern for its day. Tetradrachm Elagabalus (218-222), Alexandria. Potin. Dated RY 5 (221/222). Obv. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev. Conjoined busts of Helios, draped and wearing radiate crown, and Selene, draped and wearing crescent-moon crown, right; L Є (date) to lower right. 22.5 mm, 12.62 gr.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]921901[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3466047, member: 74834"]What with all the campgatologists on CoinTalk (I learnt it here, to love campgates!), nobody said [I]I have a like perspectival campgate of Licinus II[/I]. Pity! Here's a perspective temple, AE Phoenicia, Tyre, Macrinus, 217-218, Laureate bust r. Rev. Temple of the Phoenician Koinon or Melkart seen in perspective, murex shell to right. 25 mm, 7.10 g. [ATTACH=full]921898[/ATTACH] And a double bust, not jugate, but not 3/4 either. I think this is a wonderful design, probably quite modern for its day. Tetradrachm Elagabalus (218-222), Alexandria. Potin. Dated RY 5 (221/222). Obv. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev. Conjoined busts of Helios, draped and wearing radiate crown, and Selene, draped and wearing crescent-moon crown, right; L Є (date) to lower right. 22.5 mm, 12.62 gr. [ATTACH=full]921901[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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