There is a lot of variation in the
style of
campgates,I`d say while it may not always be significant,at times it can hold clues to things if you can discern patterns in what you are seeing. I have been trying to collect every variety I can find in
Arles campgates and noticed one thing about the
style of the
campgate reverses. In all the earlier series at
Arles, P*AR,PA_RL, S/F/PARL, and S/F ARLP, all the
campgates are plain and undecorated,whether PROVIDENTIAE or
VIRTVS. The next series, S/F PCONST, suddenly has coins with both the plain
reverse and with decorated gates, sometimes simply a row of dots, sometimes fancier and more elaborate decorations. In the final series, T/F PCONST, all of the gates are decorated, I`ve never seen one that wasn`t. I don`t know how significant it is, but in the S/F PCONST series this almost certainly means that the plain gates are from the earlier
part of the production of this series, and the decorated ones were made towards the end of the series. Just something I found interesting.
Keith
