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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8430835, member: 87809&quot;]Intriguingly, the titles COS ITER ET TER DESIG saying that Octavian served as consul for the second time and was designated for a third term, suggest this issue was struck around 32 BC, although many numismatic sources cite 36 BC.</p><p>Since the temple, which was solemnly inaugurated on August 28, 29 BC, did not yet exist at the time when this coin was struck the representation has only a symbolic character, a visual imagery that any Roman could decode:</p><ul> <li>the <i>sidus Iulium </i> in the pediment, a sign of Caesar&#039;s <i>apotheosis</i>.</li> <li>memorial altar (left of the temple), which stood on the spot where Caesar&#039;s body was buried</li> <li>cult statue of the deified Julius</li> <li> DIV IUL (the divine Julius) on the entablature</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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