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1000 Schilling Heidentor Carnuntum
| Issuer | Republic of Austria |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Value | 1000 Schilling (1000 ATS) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH HEIDENTOR CARNUNTUM 1000 SCHILLING 2000 |
| Reverse description | Frontal bust of the Roman Emperor Constantius II in full military attire, wearing an elaborate diademed helmet and muscled cuirass adorned with a Gorgoneion (Medusa mask) breastplate ornament. The emperor holds a spear diagonally in his right hand and a palm frond in his left, while a winged Victory figure bearing a laurel wreath is depicted to the left. In the right field, a representation of the reconstructed Carnuntum gate structure is visible. The legend CONSTANTIUS II arcs along the upper left periphery, with the regnal dates 337-361 to the upper right, and the engraver's signature H.WÄHNER inscribed in the lower right field. |
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Carnuntum served as the capital of the Roman province of Pannonia Superior and, at its peak, housed a garrison of roughly 50,000 soldiers and civilians. The Heidentor — "Heathen Gate" — is a misnomer that stuck; it is almost certainly the remains of a triumphal monument erected under Constantius II around 354 AD, not a gate at all. The site hosted the 308 AD Conference of Carnuntum, where Diocletian convened the warring tetrarchs in a last attempt to stabilize the collapsing four-emperor system.
Austria's millennial commemoration series of 2000 drew on landmark national heritage sites, and Carnuntum — located in Lower Austria near Petronell-Carnuntum — was a natural inclusion given its ongoing archaeological excavations, which had accelerated through the 1990s.