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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8106382, member: 87809&quot;]Just to add to the excellent write up by [USER=128351]@GinoLR[/USER], the following description can be found in a thread written at the German forum by Invictus, on November 23, 2021, page 7</p><p><a href="https://www.numismatikforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=90&amp;t=36449&amp;start=90" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numismatikforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=90&amp;t=36449&amp;start=90" rel="nofollow">https://www.numismatikforum.de/viewtopic.php?f=90&amp;t=36449&amp;start=90</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I think it is very interesting, and translated most of it:</p><p><br /></p><p>---------------</p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">&quot;The altar, which was dedicated to the goddess Roma and to the Roman emperor, was located near Lugdunum at the confluence of the rivers Rhone and Saone on an elaborately built terrace at a large grove (in today’s Croix-Rousse, a neighborhood in Lyon). In its west was the amphitheater (built under Tiberius) where the games in honor of the emperor were held. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">The site was dedicated by Drusus on August 1, 12 BC. This date was chosen because it was the anniversary of the conquest of Alexandria in 30 BC. After the dedication, Drusus went to the Rhine to start his first Germanic campaign. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Every year on August 1, the delegates of all the Gallic tribes from the three provinces, Gallia Aquitania, Gallia Lugdunensis and Gallia Belgica, met at the Lugdunum sanctuary to attend the concilium provinciae for the sacrifice and preparation of the games in honor of the Roman emperor. Thus, the altar was a symbol of the Gallic loyalty to Rome.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">The front of the rectangular altar shows the corona civica between two upright laurel branches and two nude Lares (protector spirits). On the altar was an inscription with the names of the Gallic tribes, sixty in number, and in front of each name was a statue, besides a large statue of the emperor ((Strabo IV 3,2). The altar was flanked by two columns, on each was a standing victory holding a victor’s wreath in the extended right hand and a shouldered palm branch in the left.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">In 1859, several fragments of marble plates (from the altar?) decorated with oak leaves garlands and the letters RO(mae et Augusti?) were discovered. They had been used as cover plates for a sewer tunnel. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Both Ionian columns made of gray granite are today in the church of St. Martin at Ainay. They had been sewn up in the middle ages <a href="http://qse.free.fr/IMG/jpg/colonne_ainay.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://qse.free.fr/IMG/jpg/colonne_ainay.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://qse.free.fr/IMG/jpg/colonne_ainay.jpg</a>. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Conclusive evidence about the altar is not available.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">It is notable to mention that there are no letters “SC” on any coins of the Lugdunum series, though the legend ROM(A) ET AVG(VSTVS) can be seen as the authority guaranteeing the value and acceptance of the coins in the region. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">The Lugdunum coins were issued only for use within Gallia and the Germanic frontier region, and under Tiberius there were four different editions (9 – 21 AD). To overcome the general shortage of small change and the enormous needs of the military, huge amounts of these coins were struck.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">The emperor cult at Lugdunum changed in the course of the victory of Septimius Severus over Clodius Albinus: Septimius had the image of Dea Roma removed and only living and dead emperors were worshiped.&quot;</span></p><p>------------------</p><p>AE As, Gallia, Lugdunum, 12 - 14 AD, struck under Augustus</p><p>25 mm, 11.182 g</p><p>RIC² 245; Giard 114; BN 1769; BMC 585. Cohen 37; RCV 1756;</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: TI CAESAR AVGVST F IMPERAT VII laureate head of Tiberius to r</p><p>Rev.: ROM ET AVG Front elevation of the altar of Lugdunum decorated with a corona civica between laurels, these being flanked by stylized figures; to either side, Victories on columns facing each other. On the altar two shrines for Roma and Augustus, alongside perhaps busts of the imperial family.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410125[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1410126[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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