Roman Temples

The temple is one of the more commonly encountered buildings on coins of the Roman Empire and, inspired by Price and Trell Coins and their Cities (1977) and Hill The Monuments of Ancient Rome as Coin Types (1989), I present here a number of examples.

	Tiberius AE as from Rome of the deified Augustus showing the ediface of the altar precinct for the Ara Providentia.
	Tiberius AE as from Emerita in Spain showing a temple dedicated to the deified Augustus.
	Nero AE as showing the temple of Janus Geminus in Rome with the doors closed due to "world peace". The closing of the doors commemorates an event during the sabine war when the enemy rushed through the Porta Janualis and were overwhelmed by a mass of boiling water that impetuously flowed from the Temple of Janus and thus the doors were kept open during times of war.
	Antoninus Pius AE 34mm from Egypt showing a temple facade or precinct that has variously been described as the temple complex from Caesarea with a representation of Mount Argaeus behind or the Altar of Agathodaimon.
	Commodus AE 30mm from Anazarbus in Cilicia.
	Elagabalus AE 21mm from Neapolis in Samaria with the temple dedicated to Zeus Hipsistos on top of Mount Gerizim.
	Severus Alexander AE 36mm from Amasia in Pontus showing the altar of Zeus Stratios with a tree from the sacred grove to the left.
	Severus Alexander A rather poor AE 36mm from Caesarea in Cappadocia showing a temple below Mount Argaeus flanked by prize urns.
	Gordian III AE 26mm from Hadrianopolis in Thrace with a temple dedicated to Diana/Artemis.
	Gordian III AE 26mm from Hadrianopolis in Thrace with a temple dedicated to Fortuna/Tyche.
	Tranquillina, wife of Gordian III AE 24mm from the colony of Deultum in Thrace with a tetrastyle temple dedicated to Concordia.
	Philip I AR antoninianus from the Rome mint showing the temple of Roma. There have been several successive temples dedicated to Roma. The site is located adjacent to the Colosseum in Rome and abutts the temple of Venus. This location should not be surprising as ROMA and AMOR (for Venus) are pallindromes.
	Trebonnianus Gallus AE sestertius from the mint of Rome showing the temple of Junoni Martiali probably located in Romein Rome
	Volusian AE as from the mint of Rome showing the temple of Junoni Martiali in Rome(?).
	Valerian I AR antoninianus from the Gallic mint (Trier?) showing a temple dedicated to Vulcan.
	Valerian I AE 30mm from Sagalassus in Pisidia with a temple dedicated to an unknown deity represented by a large bust on an altar.
	Gallienus AE 20mm from Ephesus in Ionia celebrating the third neocorate temple.
	Salonina AR antoninianus from the Gallic mint (Trier?) with the temple of the goddess Segetia (an old Italian corn goddess, precursor of Ceres).
	Salonina AE 29mm (10 assarion) from Perge in Pamphylia with the temple of Artemis.
	Probus Billon antoninianus from the Rome mint with the temple of Roma in Rome.
	Maxentius AE follis showing the temple of Roma in Rome. The legend on this coin, CONSERV VRB SVAE may reflect the temples reconstruction after the fire of 307 AD.
	Romulus AE quarter follis from the Rome mint showing either the temple or mausoleum of Romulus. There are at least two existing monuments that are suggested as being this building; (1) a ruin outside Rome near San Sebastiano and (2) a building on the Sacra Via in Rome between the temple of Antoninus & Faustina and the basilica of Constantine.