This is my first coin I received in 2020. Came at a nice price and I'm pretty pleased with it. First saw this coin at Cointalk by member @zumbly a couple of years ago. Its one of the first temples at the beginning of the Roman Republic, I made an artist impression of it: Mercury and his animals: some other pillars who could be used for the temple: portrait of Mercury on my Roman Republican bronze: please show your Marcus Aurelius sestertii , thanks
RIC III 1074 with MA draped and cuirassed: Æ Sestertius Rome, 172 - 173 AD (TRP XXVII means it was struck Dec.172 - Dec. 173 AD) 30 x 31 mm, 26.13 RIC III 1074, Cohen 534/Fr.25, BMC 1448; Sear II 4996; Ob.: M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXVII laureate, draped, cuirassed bust r. Rev.: IMP VI COS III Mercury standing l. on pedestal, holding caduceus and purse, within a tetra style temple with herms for columns. On tympanum, a tortoise, cock, ram, caduceus, winged helmet and purse in field, S - C in ex. RELIG AVG The representation of Mercury might be a reference to the event of the "Rain Miracle" that happened around 173 AD, when Marcus Aurelius was on the Danube commanding the Legio XII to fight the advance of the Quadi. It is H. Mattingly who relates the coinage of this type to the miraculous victory over the Quadi in the year 173, attributed by the emperor to Mercury.
