Will temples be OK? VOLUSIAN AE30 OBVERSE: AVTOK K G AFIN GAL OVEND OVOLOCCIANOC CEB, radiate and draped bust right REVERSE: ANTIOXEWN MHTRO KOLWN D-e, SC below, Tyche seated facing within tetrastyle temple, the river-god Orontes swimming beneath her, ram leaping right above Struck at Syria-Antioch, 251-253 AD 17.1g, 30mm SNGCop 295
AUGUSTUS Æ Semis OBVERSE: AVGVSTVS DIVI·F, Laureate head right REVERSE: Q. PAPIR . CAR . Q.TER.MONT.II.VIR.Q., Hexastyle temple with IVNONI inscribed on the entablature, C I IL A among the columns of the temple Ilici (Elche - Spain) After 12 BC 4.9g, 21 mm RPC I 192; SNG Copenhagen 507
I've posted all my campgates before, so I'll throw in this new coin, just won it on eBay. Not exactly ancient, but one of the nicest examples I've seen. Might be doctored with false dirt, but for I paid, I don't really care. 2 Maravedis, Felipe II, 1566-1576...
i'm pretty weak in the building department...but that is one of the big reason why i went after this coins.
Does an altar enclosure with doors count as a building? Augustus; 22-30 AD (minted under Tiberius) AE As; Rome Mint; 29mm/11g Obv: DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER; Radiate bust Augustus right Rev: PROVIDENT S C Facade of Ara Providentiae Augusti Double Panelled Door and Horns Above (Sear 1789, RIC I 81)
Temple of Janus - the ancient Roman temple whose doors were opened during times of war and only closed during times of peace. One of the well-known closings occurred under the rule of Nero(though the First Jewish War forced the doors to reopen soon thereafter, fascinating history BTW if you have time to read about it). Nero. AD 54-68. Æ As(28mm, 10.3g). Rome mint. Struck circa AD 65. NERO CAESAR AVG GERM IMP, Bare head right / PACE P R TERRA MARIQ PARTA IANVM CLVSIT, Temple of Janus with closed doors to left hung with garland and latticed window to right, S-C in upper exergue. RIC I 304.
Here is a Republican denarius from the Chicago ANA with a lots of letters and a building on it. It is the Villa Publica, as it explicitly says upwards to the right. Silver denarius. 18 mm. 55 BC. P. Fonteius P.f. Capito Concordia bust right, veiled P FONTEIVS CAPITO III VIR CONCORDIA [Note the name of the moneyer, his title (Triumvir [of the mint]) and the name of the personification] Two-story Villa Publica (originally in the Campus Martius in Rome, but nothing of it remains) T DIDI down left, IMP in ex., VIL PVB up right. Sear 393. Crawford 429/2. Sear says one of its restorations was by T. Didius in 98 BC, hence the credit in the legend down the left.
sweet addition, ro (congrats) I've thrown-in every possible building thingy, from walls, to temples, there's even a lighthouse tossed-in!! ... etc, etc ... ... oh, and "voting on comitium" ...
