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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4563582, member: 75937&quot;][MEDIA=youtube]kafVkPxjLYg[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>Worshiping the gods is a common theme on Roman coins. There were many ways to do so.</p><p><br /></p><p>One could pour a libation, a liquid sacrifice of wine or oil, from a patera:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/constantius-i-genio-popvli-romani-follis-antioch-jpg.1107363/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Constantius I, Caesar, 293-305.</p><p>Roman billon follis, 9.83 g, 26.3 mm, 5 h.</p><p>Antioch, AD 300-301.</p><p>Obv: FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, laureate head right.</p><p>Rev: GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, holding patera from which liquid flows, and cornucopiae; K/B-V//ANT.</p><p>Refs: RIC vi, p. 620, 55a; Cohen 89; RCV 14069.</p><p>Notes: The K in the left field probably refers to the retariffing of the follis at 20 denarii communes, while the V in the right field may refer to the revised valuation of the follis at 5 to the silver argentius (Harl, Kenneth W. &quot;Marks of Value on Tetrarchic Nummi and Diocletian&#039;s Monetary Policy.&quot; <i>Phoenix</i>, vol. 39, no. 3, 1985, pp. 263–270, citing C.H.V. Sutherland, &quot;Denarius and Sestertius in Diocletian&#039;s Currency Reform,&quot; <i>JRS</i> 51 (1961), pp. 93-97).</p><p><br /></p><p>One could burn incense at an altar: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1129826[/ATTACH] </p><p>Hadrian, AD 117-138.</p><p>Roman Æ dupondius, 13.78 g, , 26.1 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Rome, ca. AD 119-124.</p><p>Obv: IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG P M TR P COS III, radiate and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: PIETAS AVGVSTI, Pietas, veiled, draped, standing facing right before a lighted altar, raising her right hand and holding a box of incense in her left.</p><p>Refs: RIC 601c; BMCRE 1233-34; Cohen 1044; Strack 542; RCV 3665; Hill 257.</p><p><br /></p><p>One could raise one&#039;s hands in supplication: </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-pietas-avg-raising-hands-veiled-bust-denarius-jpg.1079922/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Faustina I, AD 138-141.</p><p>Roman AR denarius, 3.07 g, 17.6 mm, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 143.</p><p>Obv: DIVA AVG FAVSTINA, bust of Faustina I, veiled and draped, right.</p><p>Rev: PIETAS AVG, Pietas, veiled and draped, standing facing, head right, by lighted altar, raising both hands.</p><p>Refs: <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.392" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.392" rel="nofollow">RIC 392</a>; <a href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1210486&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Faustina+308&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1210486&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Faustina+308&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">BMCRE 308</a>; RSC 251b; Strack 430; RCV --; CRE 109.</p><p>Notes: Double die-match to <a href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1941.131.831" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1941.131.831" rel="nofollow">ANS 1941.131.831</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Show your coins depicting religious worship! </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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