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Author Topic: Sharing - Nice Find - Constantine Camp Gate Follis - Great Condition  (Read 929 times)

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I thought I'd share this find. It was in beautiful condition in a dealer's bargain bin. There's just a hint of patina which is more obvious in the scan than it is in the hand. It's 3.5 g in weight, 21 mm at its widest point. Enjoy.

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Re: Sharing - Nice Find - Constantine Camp Gate Follis - Great Condition
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2019, 09:58:54 pm »
Nice find!

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Re: Sharing - Nice Find - Constantine Camp Gate Follis - Great Condition
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2019, 10:02:21 pm »
Can anyone help me with the mint? It looks like STRE to me or maybe STAE. I can't seem to find that configuration. Thanks again!

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Re: Sharing - Nice Find - Constantine Camp Gate Follis - Great Condition
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2019, 10:58:58 pm »
Not that the word mint is blue text.  Click on it and read the page.  I am confident you will figure out the mintmark if you read the page.  Hint: The last letter is the officina (mint workshop).
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Re: Sharing - Nice Find - Constantine Camp Gate Follis - Great Condition
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2019, 08:42:01 am »
Very nice example, in a Dealers junk box, no less!? Yes, Camp Gates are common, but yours is a very nice example, sharp details and we'll centered. This mint city produced a vast volume of coinage during this era and a variety of reverses. The modern city in Germany is a must tourist destination and has one of the best museum and preserved Roman buildings and remains intact.
My first ancient coin was a holed Camp of Licinius II from Heraclea in a junk box too for a $1.00 back in the 1970s in a small coin shop owned by Mr. Berman.
I was a young lad back then,

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Re: Sharing - Nice Find - Constantine Camp Gate Follis - Great Condition
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2019, 08:11:17 pm »
Thank you Joe for the prompt. Using the mint article here, and this article:

https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/articles/page/slug/fourth-century-mints

I'm going to attribute it to:

S (2nd workshop)
TR - Treveri (Trier)
E - 5th officina

Great assists from all posters. Thanks everyone!

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Re: Sharing - Nice Find - Constantine Camp Gate Follis - Great Condition
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2019, 07:03:10 am »
Close.  E = 5th officina = 5th workshop.  The S abbreviates sacra.  Mints were considered sacred, the first mint in Rome is said to have been in the temple of Juno.   
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Re: Sharing - Nice Find - Constantine Camp Gate Follis - Great Condition
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2019, 10:42:51 am »
Another learning experience, Joe. Thanks again.

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Re: Sharing - Nice Find - Constantine Camp Gate Follis - Great Condition
« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2019, 04:00:09 pm »
Trier only issued coins from two workshops / officina at this time, P (Prima) and S (Secunda), so it is the second workshop. The E is part of the mint name in this case

Nice coin BTW!

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Re: Sharing - Nice Find - Constantine Camp Gate Follis - Great Condition
« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2019, 05:54:26 pm »
Ah, there is always an exception to what is normal.  I should have looked in RIC.
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Re: Sharing - Nice Find - Constantine Camp Gate Follis - Great Condition
« Reply #10 on: June 10, 2019, 07:54:21 pm »
Great stuff, thanks all. I was only used to seeing the last character refer to the mint or moneyer, so this was a new configuration to me.

 

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