Imperial Structures on Roman Coins

Roman emperors (and their celators or celatores, the engravers who created the coin dies) liked to put monumental structures on their coinage, especially if they had them built themselves. A few refrained from putting structures on their coins at all (Tiberius, for example), but others used architectural designs quite frequently; do a search of “Antoninus Pius” and “temples” in one of the ancient coins listed databases below and I guarantee you’ll have plenty of hits. I myself have 10 coins with temple reverses, four of them featuring the Janus temple of Nero.