Rev. Tetra-style Doric temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, doors closed, pediment ornamented with a thunderbolt, and surmounted by a range of ornamented crockets, acroteria at the lower angles and apex, M. VOLTEI. M. F. in exergue.
Obv. Laureate head of Jupiter right.

The temple of Jupiter Capitolinus is said to have been founded by the Tarquinii and dedicated in the first year of the republic. In 83 BC the temple was destroyed by fire. Restoration took place under Sulla and was completed by Lutatius Catulus. Over the years the temple was frequently struck by lightning and suffered structural damage, either from fire, looting or civil war, to be followed by a number of restorations, i.e. Augustus in 26 BC; in AD 69 the temple was burnt to the ground by the Vitellians and later rebuilt by Vespasian - coinage from the period depict a hexa-style temple with Corinthian columns. In AD 80 the temple was again destroyed by fire and restored under Domitian. From the fifth century on it gradually fell into ruin until its final destruction in the sixteenth century.