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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24852459, member: 26430&quot;]Collecting Roman Provincials, one ends up with lots of Tyches and lots of temples, but not always (or even often) together.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one more style in which Tyche is represented by her bust within the shrine. Notice that this would appear to be the same style of structure as shown above, with the round arch atop two columns. The outer two columns and the triangular pediment are not shown (but implied).</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes this reduced design appeared on large bronzes, but it was especially well-suited to smaller module coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1592685[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font face="Tahoma"><font size="5">Syria, Laodicea ad Mare. Elagabalus AE17 (4.29g)</font></font></p><p><font face="Tahoma"><font size="5">This coin = <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/8177" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/8177" rel="nofollow">RPC VI, 8177 (#23, illustrated)</a>, ex Salton Collection = Salton-Schlessinger FPL 27 (Fall 1958), Lot 133</font></font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another representation of Tyche holding two temples (to represent Nicomedia&#039;s Double-Neokorate status) -- but these ones are <b>not</b> Tychaia (unless there was &quot;temple-sharing&quot;; see below).</p><p><br /></p><p>These temples are a &quot;stock image&quot; on most Neokoros coins (usually just one, but occasionally up to three or four temples) -- always with regular columns (4 or more depending on perspective), triangular pediment with small decoration &amp; curved adornments at all corners (size permitting).:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1592686[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font face="Tahoma"><font size="5">Bithynia, Nicomedia. Otacilia AE27 (11.21g)</font></font></p><p><font face="Tahoma"><font size="5">This coin = Lindgren &amp; Kovacs (1985) 177 = <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/20007" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/20007" rel="nofollow">RPC VIII (Temp) 20005</a>, ex. 5 = Antioch 15 (1 Jun 1998), Lot 100, ex H.C. Lindgren (1914-2005) Collection</font></font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>To be Neokoroi (&quot;temple bearers,&quot; a privileged status), at least one temple had to be a Temple of the Imperial Cult (worship of the divine Emperor). &quot;Temple-sharing&quot; was practiced in the Greek world, so I&#039;m not sure one of these temples could be doing double-duty. (Thessalonica&#039;s Neokoros coins show a Kaberion, which I suspect doubled as the Imperial Cult&#039;s temple.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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