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Message:: [QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 24708693, member: 10613"]I have a small collection of Maxentius coins with designs in the temple pediments. The best resource on this topic is "Le monnayage de Maxence" by Vincent Drost. Also of note are the acroteria which are sometimes plain knobs and other times victories, usually with garlands and rarely with wreaths. edit: I forgot to add that these coins commemorated the rebuilding of the Temple of Venus and Roma by Maxentius after it had been destroyed by fire. [ATTACH=full]1578995[/ATTACH]X in pediment MaxentiusA.D. 307- 310Æ Follis 25mm 6.2gIMP C MAXENTIVS P F AVG; laureate head right.CONSERV VRB SVAE; Roma seated left in hexastyle temple, holding scepter and globe, shield by side; knobs as acroteria, X in pediment.In ex. AQΓRIC VI Aquileia 121a [ATTACH=full]1578996[/ATTACH] wreath in pediment, though this coin is really of interest because RIC only lists this coin as Roma holding a globe, but this one is holding a globe with a Victory on it. Drost mentions this type "avec un globe (exceptionnellement, une victoriola)" for #79, a coin of Maximianus. MaxentiusA.D. 30725x26mm 5.7gIMP C MAXENTIVS P F AVG; laureate head right.CONSERVATO-RES VRB SVAE; Roma seated in hexastyle temple holding victoriola & sceptre; wreath in pediment.In ex. R✶Pcf. RIC VI Rome 198a [ATTACH=full]1578997[/ATTACH] wolf and twins in pediment MaxentiusA.D. 30724x26mm 6.8gIMP 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 with wreaths as acroteria, she-wolf and twins in pediment.In ex. AQΓRIC VI Aquileia 113 [ATTACH=full]1578999[/ATTACH] Dioscuri in pediment MaxentiusA.D. 308- 31024x25mm 5.2gIMP C MAXENTIVS P F AVG; laureate head right.CONSERV VRB SVAE; Roma seated in hexastyle temple holding globe & sceptre; Dioscuri between altars in pediment; Victories with garlands as acroteria.In ex. RBQRIC VI Rome 208 [ATTACH=full]1579000[/ATTACH] Jupiter and Hercules in pediment MaxentiusA.D. 307- 30825x28mm 5.3gIMP MAXENTIVS P F AVG; laureate head right.CONSERV VRB SVAE; Roma seated in hexastyle temple holding globe & sceptre; Jupiter holding staff and Hercules leaning on club flanked by river gods in pediment; Victories with garlands as acroteria; H in left field.In ex. RQRIC VI Rome 205 Here are some examples from Drost [ATTACH=full]1579001[/ATTACH] and the GOAT [ATTACH=full]1579002[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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