Post your Architecture in Rome coins.

Nice Milvian very good coin.

 

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Roman architecture would not be complete without a couple of Vesta temples.

 

And of course Trajan the master builder of the Roman Empire.
A sestertius and denarius of his column and probably the temple that sat nearby.

 

I almost forgot my Gordian III a Deultum temple.

 

Even though Claudius was the emperor who started the project on the Port of Ostia, Nero (like any typical politician) took credit for it since it was finished during his reign:



NERO
AE Sestertius (26.56 g.) Lugdunum circa 65 A.D. RIC 441
NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P Laureate head of Nero left. Rev. PORT AVG Port of Ostia, river Tiber reclining below.

Claudius also honored the Praetorian guard who had elevated him to Emperor following Caligula's assassination, with a reverse of the wall enclosing the praetorian camp:



CLAUDIUS 10 B.C. - 54 A.D.
AV Aureus (7.79 g.) Rome 44 - 45 A.D. RIC 25
Obv. TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG P M TR P IIII laureate head r. Rev. Battlemented wall IMPER RECEPT enclosing praetorian camp, Fides Praetorianorum left.

 

So many wonderful coins! I've got nothing...camp gates and a city gate.

 

Just remembered I have pics of these guys:

 

Nice coins.

Any chance you could enlighten the uninformed among us (starting with me) as to the architectural item on the reverse?

 

Yes, me as well.

 

They're both coins of C. Coelius Caldus, struck in 51 BC; Crawford 437/2a and 437/4a respectively. The reverse obviously depicts a figure seated at a lofty lectisternium. Lol; I had to look it up myself. A lectisternium is a propitiatory meal offered to the gods, so the central "platform" is simply a ceremonial table or couch. I've learned something here too, because I always took it as a public platform of some sort. I guess these don't quite fit the architectural theme after all; I should have held them back for a home furnishings thread!

 

and here's my example of this type! The first Imperatorial coin I ever purchased, bought from Joel Malter for $55, longer ago than I care to remember. For a long time this lived in my "reject" box because of its obvious flaws, but at some point I realized that I'm quite fond of it and would never sell it, even if I found a reasonable upgrade (I haven't), so it graduated to a place in my grownup trays.

 

Even when you were just starting out you had good taste. Joel was my dad's dealer from the 1960's until he retired or his son took over. I bought a complete run of Malter FPL's and catalogues plus all of his NFA Journal for my dad's 80th birthday in October. He will be delighted and I'm sure it will stir some memories for him.

 

I'll give you $60 plus shipping for it. That way you make a profit, heh?

I'm sure he will be delighted. Good son!

 

I have a few silver ones here with various buildings the first one is the senate house Curia Julia with a bit broken of, I think the silver was to soft when struck splaying the flan out and thinning it. Then below is Villa Publica 55BC The temple of Jupiter circa 80BC Faustina temple circa 140 AD And the temple of Augustus and Livia.

 

Wow! I'm really blown away by the stellar coins in this thread.

Titus struck the Colosseum in bronze. He struck the Temple of Capitoline Jupiter in silver.


Titus
AR Cistophorus
Rome mint (for Asia), 80-81 AD
RIC 515 (R), BMC spec. acquired 1948, RSC - , RPC 860 (3 spec.)
Obv - IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M; Head of Titus, laureate, bearded, r.
Rev: CAPIT across field, RESTIT in exergue; Temple of Capitoline Jupiter with 4 columns enclosing figures of Juno, seated Jupiter and Minverva

 

I would love one of them, great coin.

 

Forgot my Trajan

 

@Ancient Aussie any chance of a close up of that Temple of Jupiter?

 

And if everyone is not sick of looking at architecture by now this should finish them of, starting with Nero Janus temple and then some PIUS Sestertius .

 

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