List of Roman structures on ancient coins

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The list of Roman buildings on ancient coins names buildings from Roman antiquity in chronological order that were depicted on the coins of their time. Temples and other public buildings and parts of buildings such as forums , theaters, docks, lighthouses, bridges, aqueducts , triumphal arches and columned monuments and larger altars are shown . Structural ensembles, such as the port of Ostia Antica on a sesterce of Nero, are rarer. The coins of the republic listed here name the catalog numbers for Albert. The coins of the Roman Empire are cited according to Kampmann, those of the cities in Asia Minor according to Varbanov or Sear. From around the middle of the 3rd century AD, temples are still depicted on Roman coins, but these are abstract and often highly stylized temples or fortifications. They are usually not assigned to any specific building. With the exception of the lighthouse of Alexandria, the Pharos, this also applies to Alexandrian coins such as the illustration of pylons .

Coins of the Roman Republic

  • Picture gallery of coins of the Roman Republic with buildings

  • Aqua Marcia

  • Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus

  • Temple of Vesta

  • Villa publica

  • The sanctuary of Venus Cloacina on a Roman denarius , 42 BC. Chr., Crawford 494 / 42b

  • Pharos of Messina

Coins of the Roman Empire

The increasing lack of structures in Rome on the coins since the time of the soldier emperors is also due to the fact that they were mainly busy on site with border security and the fight against counter-emperors. Some emperors of this time were never in Rome and could not take care of the further urban development.

Roman provincial coins

The warlike conflicts with Germanic tribes and the Persian Empire, which intensified in the 3rd century, prompted many cities in the Roman dominion to build or expand city walls. The cities of Asia Minor then stamped their city gates as a motif on the back of their local bronze coins. Much more often temples are shown, mostly with four columns, but also with two to ten columns, occasionally with a statue of a deity in the temple.

  • City gate of Nicopolis ad Istrum (Moesia) on bronze coin of the city z. Time of the emperor Elagabalus (Varbanov 3139 var.)
  • City gate of Augusta Traiana (Thrace) on bronze coin of the city z. Time of the emperor Septimius Severus (Varbanov cf. 962)
  • the Acropolis with the Parthenon on bronze coin Athens in the time between Hadrian and Antoninus Pius (Sear GIC Attica 4855)
  • stylized labyrinth on bronze coin from Knossos (Crete) (Sear Augustus GIC 41)
  • Ensemble of three temples on large bronze coins from Pergamon (Sear GIC Caracalla 2534, Severus Alexander 3296)
  • the octagonal and closed city wall of Nicea (Bithynia) with two opposite city gates (Sear GIC Macrianus 4730, Quietus 4733)
  • Bird's eye view of forum on large bronze coin from Laodicea ad Lycum (Sear GIC 2592)
  • six-arched bridge over the meander on a large bronze coin from Antioch ad Maeandrum (Sear Gallienus 4568)
  • Pharos of Alexandria , e.g. B. on AE of Hadrian (Kampmann / Ganschow 32,557 and 589 and 690). Although this is a lighthouse built in the Hellenistic period, it was also used in Roman times.
  • The Serapis temple of Marcianopolis in Moesia on a bronze coin z. Currently Gordianus III. (Varbanov GIC 4228)
  • the temple of Tyche of Antioch on the Orontes on 8 Assaria coin z. Currently Volusianus' (McAlee 1192/3)

The coins that were minted at the time of the Bar Kochba uprising, some of which show the Temple of Jerusalem (Sear 5647 - 5651), belong to the Roman provincial coins only in a broader sense .

  • Picture gallery of Roman provincial coins with buildings

  • City gate of Nicopolis ad Istrum with an open rectangular passage

  • City gate of Augusta Traiana with three towers

  • Temple of Aphrodite from Deultum z. Currently Gordians III.

  • City gate of Pomorie (Anchialus) z. Currently of the Gordian. III.

  • Temple on the mountain, Zeugma (city) z. By Antoninus Pius

  • Serapis temple Marcianopolis z. Currently of the Gordian. III.

  • City gate Marcianopolis z. By Macrinus and Diadumenianus

  • Tyche temple Antioch on the Orontes z. Of Volusianus

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Margret Karola, Johannes Nollé: Gods cities festivals - Asia Minor coins of the Roman Empire. P. 79 f.
  2. ↑ David R. Sear, Greek Imperial Coins and their values, page XVf