City Gate

Topical Collections: Architecture - City Gate

This part of the collection contains coins showing the fortified gates or entrances to cities. Sometimes an entire city is shown. Most of these pieces will be from Roman provinces.

	Roman Provincial, Thrace-Augusta Traiana, Commodus, AE17, 177-192 [AVTO] K[OMOΔOC] Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from behind AVΓOY[CTHC TPA]-INHC City gate with central arch way and closed doors, two crenelated towers flanking, third crenelated tower in center 16mm x 17mm, 3.58g Schobert-Geiss - (cf. 114 for Crispina); SNG Copenhagen -; Varbanov 934 (same dies)
	Caracalla, AE27, 198-217, Thrace-Anchialus AV K M AVP- ANTWNINOC Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from behind OVLPI_ANWN- AGXIAL_EWN City gate with two towers with conical roofs, no door, three arches on top 26mm x 27mm, 10.84g Moushmov 2844
	Geta, AE Pentassarion, 209-212, Moesia Inferior-Kallatis . K L . CEP-. GETAC . Bare-head, draped, cuirassed bust right . KAL .-LATIA City gate with two broad towers, conical roofs, left tower with square window even with center roofline, right tower with niche containing statue of Hercules, square window near top of tower, part of the bottom of the back wall showing at the top of the center archway as represented by small-perspective stones . E . in top center field 25mm x 26mm, 11.08g Moushmov 303
	Macrinus, AE26, 217-218, Moesia Inferior-Nicopolis ad Istrum, Claudius Agrippa as Magistrate AUT K M OPEL CE_UH MAKRINOC Laureate head right VP AGRIPPA NIKOPOLITWN PRO_C City gate with three crenelated towers, closed paneled doors ICTRO in exergue 26mm, 11.62g Varbanov 3345; Moushmov 1234 Ex Malter Galleries, eBay, 2001
	Elagabalus, AE28, 218-222, Moesia Inferior-Nicopolis ad Istrum, Nobilius Rufus as Magistrate AYT M AVR-ANTWNEINOC Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from behind VPA NOB POVFOV NIKOPLITWN (sic) / PROC I C (in exergue) / P \| O / N (across fields) City gate with flanking towers, statues of animals surmounting both towers, closed doors, facing spread quadriga guided by Nike between towers 27mm x 28mm, 12.69g AMNG I 2003 Ex CNG, December 2003 Note: Ray Wilk has another example from this same pair of dies.
	Gordian III, AE27, 238-244, Moesia Inferior-Nikopolis as Istrum, Modestus as Magistrate AVT K M ANTW-GORDIANOC Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from behind VP CAB MODECTOV NIKOPOLEITWN City gate with two towers with conical roofs, no doors, four ramparts between towers CICTPON in exergue 26mm x 27mm, 10.92g Moushmov 1496
	Gordian III, AE26, 238-244, Thrace-Hadrianopolis AUG K M ANT GORDIANOC AUG (UG ligate) Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from behind ADRIANOPOLEITWN (WN ligate) City gate with two conical turrets, three parapets between, no door 25mm x 28mm, 9.33g BMC 43
	Gordian III, AE26, 238-244, Thrace-Hadrianopolis AUG K M ANT GORDIANOC AUG (UG ligate) Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from behind ADRIANOPOLEIT_WN City gate with two crenelated towers, conical roofs, three archways, the center larger than the two side arches, no doors, four ramparts between towers 26mm x 27mm, 9.88g Moushmov 2701
	Gordian III, AE26, 238-244, Thrace-Hadrianopolis AUG K M AN_T GORDIANOC AUG (UG ligate) Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from behind ADRI_ANO_POL_EITWN City gate with two towers, conical roofs, no doors, three ramparts between towers 25mm x 26mm, 10.23g Sear GIC 3652 variant
	Gordian III, AE26, 238-244, Thrace-Hadrianopolis AUG K M ANT GORDIANOC AUG (UG ligate) Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from behind ADRIANOPO_LEITW_N City gate with two towers, conical roofs, no doors, four ramparts between towers 23mm x 26mm, 8.21g Sear GIC 3652 variant
	Gordian III, AE26, 238-244, Thrace-Hadrianopolis AUG K M AN_T GORDIANOC AUG (UG ligate) Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right, seen from behind ADRIANOPOLEITWN City gate with two towers, conical roofs, no doors, four ramparts between towers, row of arches between top row of blocks above main archway 26mm x 28mm, 9.15g Sear GIC 3652 variant
	Otacilia Severa, AE28, 244-249, Cilicia-Diocaesarea WTAKIL CEVHPAN EVC CEB Draped bust right, stephane in hair ADPIANWN DIOKAICAPEWN MHTP KENN Arched portico of citygate, surmounted by a procession 28mm x 29mm, 9.14g Price and Trell 507; SNG Levante(Switzerland I - Cicilia Levante) 679 Ex Nilus Coins, CICF show, 2003 To see a really spectacular collection of a city gate specialist, click here to go to Ray Wilk's site, although he consigned a fairly large portion of his collection to Marc Breitsprecher to sell for him. The actual city gate in Diocaesarea (modern day Uzuncaburç, Turkey), still standing today, as depicted on the coin. Although the statues shown on the following coin are gone, the niches and shelves on which they stood still exist. The gate also still has the name of ancient Diocaesarea inscribed in it.