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Title: Campgate with interesting dots
Post by: tjaart on April 20, 2018, 05:22:33 PM

Hi all,

I recently got this relatively rare campgate. The thing that drew my attention was the shape of the dots in the top row. I have never seen circles instead of dots. Has anyone seen the dots represented like this?

Constantius II 330,334AD
Laureate, draped cuirassed left, FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C
Campgate, 10 layers, 2 turrets, star above, dot in doorway, base, circles in top row, PROVIDEN-TIAE CAESS
SMANTH
RIC VII Antioch 74, R5
20mm, 3.73g

I know this is a bit of a specialist subject to discuss dot shapes in campgates :)

Tjaart

Title: Re: Campgate with interesting dots
Post by: Victor on April 20, 2018, 05:36:51 PM

Quote from: tjaart on April 20, 2018, 05:22:33 PM
I have never seen circles instead of dots. Has anyone seen the dots represented like this?

but you have seen them before! ;D

the old post about this coin

http://www.lateromanbronzecoinforum.com/index.php/topic,595.msg1673.html#msg1673

Title: Re: Campgate with interesting dots
Post by: tjaart on April 21, 2018, 02:45:29 AM

:-[ Oops. Thanks for the link! Seems 4 years ago is too long for me to remember :) That is a nice example! Seems we now have two dies from the same engraver.

Tjaart

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