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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8197838, member: 110350&quot;]Of course it&#039;s OK -- Imperial certainly counts as &quot;Roman Republican or otherwise&quot;! Besides, it&#039;s an important coin as a rare example of the Dioscuri portrayed on Imperial coinage, and it&#039;s particularly interesting that it comes from Ostia Antica. See one of the links I posted above, at <a href="https://www.ostia-antica.org/dict/topics/mint/mint04.htm#:~:text=The%20Dioscuri%20were%20known%20to,against%20the%20Latins%20in%20c" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ostia-antica.org/dict/topics/mint/mint04.htm#:~:text=The%20Dioscuri%20were%20known%20to,against%20the%20Latins%20in%20c" rel="nofollow">https://www.ostia-antica.org/dict/topics/mint/mint04.htm#:~:text=The Dioscuri were known to,against the Latins in c</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Dioscuri first appeared on Republican coins in 225 BC and were used frequently down to 46 BC. Apart from the coins minted at Ostia by Maxentius, images of the Dioscuri were rarely used during the Empire, although they do make a final appearance on the 500 lire coins minted from 1951 to 2001 AD where they can be seen in front of the Quirinal Palace. . . . A large temple was built in the Roman Forum to commemorate events at Lake Regillus and the Temple of Castor and Pollux in Ostia has recently been identified by Michael Heinzelmann and Archer Martin in the area west of the Imperial Palace. An inscription tells of its restoration in the 2nd century AD by P. Lucilius Gamala and another record describes it as being situated on the &#039;right side of the river&#039;. Bearing all this in mind, together with the desire of Maxentius to return to the classical times, it is not surprising that the Dioscuri feature on the coins produced at the Ostia mint.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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