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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8279049, member: 26430&quot;]That&#039;s a fascinating one, [USER=104887]@Broucheion[/USER] , I love any kind of bilingual coins. (Also from a very interesting collection; &quot;JSW,&quot; as he was known in the early volumes of RPC, had a fantastic Provincial collection, among others.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the hexastyle Temple of Roma, presumably the one built in Hadrian&#039;s reign (also shown on his own Sestertii with the same decorations, but usually with more columns on coins of both Philip and Hadrian). (AKA &quot;Temple of Venus and Roma,&quot; or <i>Templum Veneris et Romae</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Venus_and_Roma" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Venus_and_Roma" rel="nofollow">per Wikipedia</a>; see also a relevant <a href="https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/hadrians-rome/content-section-5.6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/hadrians-rome/content-section-5.6" rel="nofollow">excerpt of Mary Boatwright&#039;s <i>Hadrian and the City of Rome</i></a> from Open University, illustrated by a Hadrian Sestertius. She begins with the anecdote (&quot;a strange and improbable story&quot;) from Cassius Dio (69.4.4) about the famous architect/engineer Apollodorus of Damascus being executed for scorning Hadrian&#039;s plans for the edifice.)</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is on a Philip I <i>Ludi Saeculares</i> coin -- i.e., celebrating the millennial games at the 1,000th anniversary of Rome&#039;s founding.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ex Agora 26 (2015), 168; previously ex Nick Economopolous and NFA MBS Fall 1990, #2198.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461964[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>NEXT: Another coin issued for &quot;the games&quot; </b>(whether these same millennial games or a different century/decade&#039;s <i>ludi saeculares</i>, or even a completely different &quot;games,&quot; many of which are also celebrated on Greek and RPC coinage)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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