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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 2574257, member: 8959&quot;]A Nero denarius showing the Temple of Vesta, and a sestertius of Antoninus Pius with the Temple of Roma.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS.</b> 138-161 AD. Æ Sestertius. Struck 140-144 AD. </p><p>Obv: Laureate head right&nbsp; </p><p>Rev: Decastyle temple of Roma, statue within. RIC III 623.</p><p><br /></p><p>About this temple:</p><p>The great temple of Venus and Rome, actually two temples that were back to back, the temple of Venus faced the Flavian ampitheatre and that of Rome overlooked the Forum, was designed by Hadrian himself. Construction began in 121 AD and and remained unfinished on Hadrian&#039;s death in 138 AD. Construction was finally completed in 141 AD under Antoninus Pius, the event celebrated by this coin. The temple would be destroyed by fire in 307 and later rebuilt by Maxentius, the remains of which can still be seen in Rome today.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]557309[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]557310[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]557311[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]557312[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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