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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2325605, member: 42773&quot;]A couple of factoids about the Temple of Janus types. We are not certain where the temple actually existed in Rome - different contemporary sources put it in a few different locations and scholars continue to debate the likelihood of those locations.</p><p><br /></p><p>The design on the coins actually depicts the front of the temple and one side, but it&#039;s drawn with a straight baseline, so it has no perspective. &quot;Door left&quot; and &quot;door right&quot; describe the position of the doors on the coins, but that&#039;s a bit misleading. The door is in the front of the temple, in the center. But perhaps it would be clumsy to say, &quot;Temple seen from left without perspective,&quot; etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>These were struck in various small denominations, of both orichalcum and bronze, and as aureii, but as Doug mentioned, curiously no silver. There is one aureus type which depicts the doors only...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]470713[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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