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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3391985, member: 75937&quot;]I wouldn&#039;t put much stock in the specifics of the temple design. The inscription makes it clear as to what the coin is promoting -- that the city was home to <i><b>two</b></i> (ΔΙC) <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-neocorate.297172/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-neocorate.297172/">neocorates</a> (ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ). The important thing for the city&#039;s PR department was that there were two of them, not necessarily rendering their details accurately.</p><p><br /></p><p>These were a point of civic pride (see the link to my write-up about the neocorate, above) and the coin from Koinon Macedonia would not have depicted the two temples in Nicomedia.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe these are just stock depictions of generic temples, many of which were designed on similar architectural principles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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