Let's go to temple

I think that you have a Rome coin with a mint mark of RBS, similar to the coin I have attached below. The bust also looks more like Rome.

 

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COMMAGENE, Zeugma.

Philip I the Arab. 247-249 AD.

Æ31, 19.2g; 6h (a nice chunky coin, how about that?)

Obv.: AYTOK K M IOYΛI ФIΛIΠΠOC CЄB; Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right.

Rev.: ZЄYGM-ATЄΩN; Peribolos containing grove of trees, seen in perspective; tetrastyle temple in distance, draped figure within (Zeus?); in exergue, capricorn to right.

Reference: Butcher 31c; BMC 35.

 

You're right. I thought only Aquileia had the lines and dots cornice but clearly I was wrong.

 

Okay, here we go.

 

Recovered from my archives:

 

The temple of Vesta in Rome.


Julia Domna. Struck 214.
27-24 mm. as. 10.15 grams.
IVLIA PIA FELIX AVG
Julia sacrificing over altar, accompanied by three Vestal Virgins, temple of Vesta with four columns.
Sear II 7137. "The temple had been restored by Julia Domna some years earlier."
RIC 607.

 

Very nice example Warren, especially like the reverse as usually I only see worn examples unlike yours.

 

Antoninus Pius
A.D. 150- 151
Æ Sestertius
30x31mm 27g
IMP CAES T AEL HADR ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P; laureate head right
TR POT XIIII COS IIII S-C PIETAS; Octastyle temple, in which are seated Augustus and Livia.
RIC III Rome 873

The reverse commemorates the restoration of the temple of Divus Augustus and Diva August (Livia)



Julia Domna
Ionia, Smyrna
A.D. 198- 202
26mm 11.5gm
ΙΟΥΛΙΑ CЄΒΑCΤΗ; draped bust right.
Є CΤΡ Μ ΑΥΡ ΓЄΜΙΝΟΥ / CΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ, tetrastyle temple with cult statue of Tyche.
BMC 387.8.32; Lindgren 397




Faustina I
after A.D. 141
AR Denarius
17x18mm 3.1gm
DIVA FAVSTINA; draped bust right.
AED DIV FAVSTINAE; Hexastyle temple in which is seated figure of Faustina I.
RIC III Rome 343



Philip I
A.D. 248
AR Antoninianus
22x23mm 3.9g
IMP PHILIPPVS AVG; radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
SAECVLVM NOVVM; Hexastyle temple with statue (of Roma) in center of columns.
RIC IV Rome 25b

Celebrating the Secular Games for the 1000th year anniversary of the founding of Rome



Gallienus
A.D. 258-259
AR Antoninianus
21x22mm 3.8gm
GALLIENVS P F AVG; Radiate and cuirassed bust right.
DEO MARTI; Mars in temple.
RIC Vi Lyons 10; Göbl 889h Cologne

Attributed to Lyons in RIC, but more recently reattributed to Cologne in Göbl





Maxentius
A.D. 307
24x25mm 5.2g
IMP C MAXENTIVS P F AVG, laureate head right.
CONSERV VRB SVAE, Roma seated left on shield within tetrastyle temple, holding scepter and handing globe to Maxentius, standing right and holding scepter, with foot on bound captive seated right; Victories as acroteria, she-wolf and twins in pediment.
In ex. AQΓ
RIC VI Aquileia 113

 

The temple of Roma:


Probus, 276-282
IMP PROBVS AVG, helmeted bust left with spear and shield.
ROMAE AETERNAE, 6-column temple (of Roma) with Roma within holding Victory and long staff.
R*Γ
in exergue.
Sear III.12027
RIC 195G

I have a page on books and catalogs that emphasize architectural types:

http://augustuscoins.com/ed/catalogs/architectural.html

They make a great collecting theme.