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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PMONNEY, post: 3025488, member: 82829&quot;]As an ancient coin collector, it is a renewed pleasure to read the numerous wise articles of Marvin Tameanko. Looking back at some old issues of the regretted publication&quot;The Celator&quot; I was delighted to rediscover&nbsp; in the Vol.25, N°5, May2011, the precious article:&nbsp; &quot;Roman Architecture as propaganda on coins&quot;-The Coinage of Divus Romulus.</p><p><br /></p><p>The author distinguishes three types of reverses of these bronze coins, minted in Rome and Ostia, meant to represent respectively the tomb of Romulus, the shrine of Romulus and the Temple of Romulus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Explaining that these were three distinct monuments - rather than a unique, misrepresented, monument erected for the prematurely deceased son of Maxentius, Tameanko tried to explain why they were all represented with a door ajar. His conclusion:&quot;it may indicate that the tomb was open to he public and that spectators going to the circus were invited to pay their respects to the deceased.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was able to obtain&nbsp; a copy of the brochure published by Prof. Britt Haarlov in the Odense University Press: &quot;The Half-Open door&quot;.After a detailed research with Roman sacorphagi she concluded that this represented&nbsp; a <u>Symbolic Motif</u> <u>within the Roman Sepulchral Sculpture.</u></p><p><br /></p><p>Namely, an icon of metamorphosis and revelation<i>: <b>The inviting door holds forth the promise of fateful experience, the moment of rebirth and regeneration. hope of perfect understanding , transfiguration&nbsp; and eternity, the non-existence of death.</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I am fortnate to have such a coin in my collection:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>ROMVLVS, Marcvs Valerivs</b>, Bare head of Romvlvs r<b>.&quot;DIVO ROMVLO N V BIS CONS</b>&quot;...<i>(Divo Romulo Nobilissimus Vir, Bis Consul&quot;,</i>. Rev : Temple with circular dome, partly open doors, surmounted by eagle standing r. head to l. &quot;<b>AETERNAE - MEMORIAE</b>/ <b>MOSTT&quot;</b>Mint: Ostia, 3rd.officina, 310 AD Follis, Copper.(6,24gr./24mm.12h.) R2.Ref.:<b> :</b><a href="http://www.cgb.fr/ouvrage.php?id=135" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cgb.fr/ouvrage.php?id=135" rel="nofollow">C.6 (10f.)</a>- <a href="http://www.cgb.fr/ouvrage.php?id=375" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cgb.fr/ouvrage.php?id=375" rel="nofollow">RIC.34;</a><a href="http://www.cgb.fr/ouvrage.php?id=11201" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cgb.fr/ouvrage.php?id=11201" rel="nofollow">RCV.15050 (550$)</a><a href="http://www.cgb.fr/ouvrage.php?id=355" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cgb.fr/ouvrage.php?id=355" rel="nofollow">MAR.7</a>-<a href="http://www.cgb.fr/ouvrage.php?id=5785" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cgb.fr/ouvrage.php?id=5785" rel="nofollow">MRK.-</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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