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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 7996193, member: 128351&quot;][ATTACH=full]1387053[/ATTACH]</p><p>As of Nero: the Temple of Janus in Rome, with closed doors. Opening or closing sacred doors is a religious ritual which has survived today in Rome, <i>more majorum</i>. In pontifical basilicas there is a closed &quot;<i>Porta Santa</i>&quot; the Pope (Pontifex Maximus) opens to mark the beginning of a Jubilee Year, and that he closes when the Holy Year is over. In ancient Rome the ritual opening of the Janus temple doors was performed when Rome was at war somewhere in the world, and when peace was obtained the emperor (Pontifex Maximus too) ceremoniously closed these doors. When, under Nero, peace was concluded with the Parthian Empire, Nero closed the doors of the temple of Janus which was situated on the Forum.</p><p>The coin legend is a long sentence beginning on the obverse and continued on the reverse : <i>Imp(erator) Nero Caesar Aug(ustus) Germanic(us), / pace P(opulo) R(omano) ubiq(ue) parta, Ianum clusit</i> : The emperor Nero Caesar Augustus Germanicus, having procured the Roman People peace everywhere, closed Janus.</p><p><br /></p><p>NEXT : Pax&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]1387057[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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