Laureate head right / City gate with two towers

Laureate head right / City gate with two towers

Comment- This coin is similar to the coin above, but this one has only 2 blocks on top of the wall. There is no doorway opening.

Bare-headed draped bust right / City gate with windows, 2 quadrigas above

Comment- Arched doorway with closed doors. Provincials of Commodus with city gate reverses are scarce, and this one is in great condition, if you can ignore the fact that whoever put on the fake green patina didn't do a very good job, they didn't get it in all the chips and crevices.

Laureate head right / City gate with two towers, Zeus standing above holding scepter and thunderbolt

Comment- Square doorway. The high spots on this coin are worn pretty smooth, but you can still see the nice details on Zeus.

Radiate bust right / City gate with two towers, figure standing above holding an object

Comment- There's not enough detail for me to figure out if the figure is Zeus holding a scepter and thunderbolt, or if it's Poseidon holding a trident.

Laureate, draped cuirassed bust right / City gate with conical towers, above wall a statue of Zeus standing within arch and holding a scepter

Comment- The doors of the gate are closed. The gate of Anchialus is usually portrayed with a few small arches along the top of the wall. Interesting obverse portrait, Caracalla looks like a biker!

Laureate draped and cuirassed bust / City gate

Comment- There are windows or lookout openings with bars near the top of the towers. Interesting decorations on top of the towers and 4 arches on top of the wall.

Laureate, draped bust / City gate

Comment- Arched windows near the top of the towers. Only 3 arches on top of the wall.

Laureate, draped bust / City gate

Comment- 4 arches along the top of the wall. This coin looks worse through the camera's macro lens than it does in hand.

Laureate head right / City gate

Comment- The doorway on this coin is arched, and the doors are closed. Interesting tops on the towers, and 4 arches on the wall.

Bust right / City gate

Comment- 5 arches along the top of the wall. Arched doorway with closed doors.

Bust right / City gate

Comment- 6 arches along the top of the wall. Arched doorway with very large closed doors.

Face to face busts / City gate with towers

Comment- Arched doorway with wall and towers looking similar to Gordian III gate reverses from other cities, with a few arches along the top of the wall to identify it with Anchialus. The tooling or smoothing on this coin makes the picture look like the camera moved, notice how the left tower top and the letters above it seem to have a double-outline! The obverse is not so obvious, but the legend seems extremely pronounced, and under a maginfying glass there is a double-outline around Tranquillina's hair.

Laureate head right / City gate with large windows along top and closed doors

Comment- This coin has a different treatment of the top of the wall and the top of the towers.

Laureate, draped bust / City gate with large windows along top and arched closed doors

Comment- Van Meter notes "the early portraits of Maximinus were executed before a likeness of the new emperor arrived at the mint; thus, they are pure fiction, and rather resemble Severus Alexander". This coin is an early portrait. Maximinus was a man of "enormous physical stature", and later coins portray him with a large chin and a beard.

Bust right / City gate with two towers, windows along top of wall

Comment- Quite an odd depiction of the city wall, the closed doors take up the whole wall. This coin is my wife's favorite, because it only cost $4. DOH!!