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Offline Dino

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Constantine Campgate
« on: June 25, 2009, 07:31:04 am »
OK, coin number 5 of the 10 I've recently finished cleaning.  I think I've got this one, but confirmation appreciated.


Constantine Campgate
Obv: Bust right, pearl diademed CONSTAN-TINVS AVG   
Rev: Campgate with two turrets, star above. PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG
SMKA in exergue
Oficina: Beta or Gamma
RIC: Cyzicus 58

(With the pit under his eye and the particular portrait on this one, I keep seeing Rocky Balboa after one of his fights....)

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Re: Constantine Campgate
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2009, 07:39:37 am »
I think that the exe is SMKA dot and I also think that the bust type is laureate, which would then be RIC VII Cyzicus 34.
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Re: Constantine Campgate
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2009, 10:48:41 am »
Ok, thanks.  Funny, the dot just completed slipped by me.

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Re: Constantine Campgate
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2009, 10:03:52 pm »
In a recent study I put on Numiswiki, it was one of the most common coins (nothing wrong with that!) . Here is how the A officina played out:

SMKA - 7 coins

dot SMKA - 12

dot SMKA dot - 5

SMKA dot - 26


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Re: Constantine Campgate
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2009, 10:24:37 pm »
Not sure if it was just a copy and paste error or? ...

But you correctly read the exergue as SMKA but then go on to say "Officina: Beta or Gamma" ?


 

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