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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 4908327, member: 44316"]Visit Rome and you can walk along the Roman Forum. Here is a picture of the Forum taken last November from the Palatine Hill above the Forum. [ATTACH=full]1184443[/ATTACH] Here is one in the opposite direction, taken from the Forum. You can see people on the platform at the top where I took the first picture. [ATTACH=full]1184444[/ATTACH] Near that spot was the Rostra. Wikipedia notes, "Speakers would stand on the rostra and face the north side of the comitium towards the senate house and deliver orations to those assembled in between. ... It derives its name from the six rostra (plural of rostrum, a warship's ram) which were captured following the victory at Antium in 338 BC and mounted to its side." Here is a recent purchase showing that spot in the Forum: [ATTACH=full]1184446[/ATTACH] Lollius Palicanus, 45 BC19-18 mm. 3.55 grams.LIBERTATIS down left behind head of LibertyPALIKANVS above tribune's chair on Rostra with three ship's beaks.Sear I 465. Crawford 473/1. Sear The History and the Coinage of the Roman Imperators 86. The moneyer's father, Marcus Palicanus, was tribune in 71 BC. Caesar was regarded (by some) as Liberator of the state (from the supporters of Pompey). There are other Roman coin types with monuments from the Forum. Show us a coin that relates to the Roman Forum.[/QUOTE]