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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cucumbor, post: 2438400, member: 4298&quot;]Interesting thread, good idea and welcome at CT [USER=79213]@rg3[/USER] !</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1 - The already cited aqueduct</b> :</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/0010-080.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>ROMAN REPUBLIC, Marcia - L. Marcius Philippus, denarius </b> Rome mint, 56 BC</p><p>[ANCVS] Head of Ancus Marcius right, lituus behind him</p><p>PHILIPVS AQUA MAR, Equestrian statue above a five arch aqueduct</p><p>3.66 gr</p><p>Ref : RCV #382, RSC, Marcia # 28 </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>2 - The golden statue of Victory, standing on a globe and holding a wreath and palm, to be set up on an altar in the Curia in Rome to commemorate Octavian&#039;s victory at Actium :</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/0030-0210.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b> Octavian, Denarius </b> Italian mint, possibly Rome, 31-30 BC</p><p>Anepigraph, bare head of Octavian left</p><p>CAESAR - DIVI F, Victory standing right on globe, holding wreath</p><p>3.84 gr</p><p>Ref : HCRI # 408, RCV # 1552v, Cohen # 66, RIC # 255</p><p>The following comment is taken from CNG, sale 84 # 957 :</p><p><i>&quot;Following his victory at Actium, Octavian ordered a golden statue of Victory, standing on a globe and holding a wreath and palm, to be set up on an altar in the Curia in Rome. This statue had been captured by the Romans from Pyrrhus in 272 BC, and it assumed a somewhat tutelary mystique, protecting the Roman state from dissolution. In AD 382, the emperor Gratian ordered its removal. Two years later, the senator and orator Symmachus urged Valentinian II to replace it, a request that was met with stiff opposition from the bishop of Milan, Ambrose. Though it was briefly returned to its place by the usurper Eugenius, it was again removed following his defeat. Petitions to Theodosius I for its subsequent replacement were refused, on grounds that the once-important symbol of the gods’ blessing on the Roman Empire was now nothing more than a piece of paganism&quot;</i> </p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>3 - the statue of the sun god, with the facial features of the emperor, erected by Nero in front of his Domus Aurea (Golden House) :</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0070-210np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b> Nero, Denarius - 008 </b> Rome mint, AD 64/65</p><p>NERO CAESAR, laureate head of Nero right</p><p>AVGVSTVS GERMANICVS, Nero standing facing, holding branch and victory on globe</p><p>3,32 gr</p><p>Ref : RCV #1941, Cohen #45, RIC # 47</p><p>The following comment, from NFA, auction XX catalog, # 118 :</p><p><i>Nero&#039;s coinage reform of A.D. 64 saw a reduction in the weight standard of both the aureus and denarius denominations. A whole new range of reverse types was introduced with an unmistakably imperial flavor, in marked contrast to the senatorial types of the pre-reform coinage. This coin depicts a standing figure of the emperor, wearing the radiate crown of the sun god Sol, holding a branch of peace and a small figure of Victory. An allusion to the settlement of the Parthian question, following Corbulo&#039;s successes in Armenia in A.D. 63, seems unmistakable. It is tempting to identify this reverse type with the statue of the sun god, with the facial features of the emperor, erected by Nero in front of his Domus Aurea (Golden House), which was one of the principal features of the reconstruction following the Great Fire of Rome in A.D. 64. The Flavian Amphitheatre (Colosseum) was later erected on the site of the Domus Aurea&#039;s ornamental lake, and received its popular name from its close proximity to Nero&#039;s statue</i> </p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>4 - The temple of Romulus in Rome :</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11724/normal_0621-310np_noir.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b> Romulus, Posthumous follis </b> Posthumous issue under the reign of his father Maxentius</p><p>Ostia mint, 1st officina, AD 309-310</p><p>DIVO ROMVLO N V BIS CONS, Bare head of Romulus right</p><p>AETERNAE MEMORIAE, Temple with domed roof surmounted by eagle, M OST P at exergue</p><p>7.35 gr</p><p>RCV # 15050 (550), Cohen #6, RIC VI # 34 </p><p><br /></p><p>Q[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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