TEMPLE, Antoninus Pius, AE Dupondius

Rome
158-159 AD
radiate head right
ANTONINVS AVG_PIVS P P TR P XXII
Antoninus Pius standing on cippus within distyle arch temple,
holding scepter with eagle atop
COS_IIII
S C
RIC 1014 var; C. 334 var; Bauten 87 var
13,04g 24,5-23,5 mm

this variation has vary high cippus and column bases

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Charles S

[Dec 01, 2010 at 10:02 AM]

I like the second pair of columns very clearly visible behind on this coin. Thus, the structure is rather an arched tetrastyle shrine, very much like - and perhaps a precursor of - the tetrastyle shrines used in early church architecture called ciborium

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TEMPLE, Antoninus Pius, AE Dupondius

Rome 158-159 AD radiate head right ANTONINVS AVG_PIVS P P TR P XXII Antoninus Pius standing on cippus within distyle arch temple, holding scepter with eagle atop COS_IIII S C RIC 1014 var; C. 334 var; Bauten 87 var 13,04g 24,5-23,5 mm this variation has vary high cippus and column bases

Rome
158-159 AD
radiate head right
ANTONINVS AVG_PIVS P P TR P XXII
Antoninus Pius standing on cippus within distyle arch temple,
holding scepter with eagle atop
COS_IIII
S C
RIC 1014 var; C. 334 var; Bauten 87 var
13,04g 24,5-23,5 mm

this variation has vary high cippus and column bases