Salvete,
It is often heard that Money is the only divinity our god-forsaken times still worship. It was an ironical surprise for me to learn that the Romans already preceded us in this, and that they worshipped it literally (unless you accept Cicero's etymology, vide infra), under the form of Iuno Moneta.
A temple on the arx was vowed to her by M. Furius Camillus during the war with the Aurunci in 345 B.C. It is altogether probable that this temple of Camillus replaced an earlier cult centre of Iuno Moneta, to which reference is made by Plutarch (Cam. 27), when speaking of the sacred geese that were kept around her temple in 390 B.C.
Various explanations were given by the Roman antiquarians of the epithet Moneta. Cicero (de Div. i.101) says that it was derived from the warning voice of the goddess, heard in the temple on the occasion of an earthquake, 'ut sue plena procuratio fieret'. Suidas (s.v. Monh=ta) states that during the war with Tarentum the Romans, needing money, obtained it by following the advice of Juno; and that in gratitude they gave her the epithet Moneta and decided to establish the mint in her temple. None of the explanations yet suggested is satisfactory, and even the usual derivation of the word Moneta from moneo is open to doubt (Walde, Etym. Wörterb. 2nd ed. 493). The mint was in the temple during the last centuries of the republic, perhaps established there in 269 when silver coinage was introduced into Rome (Liv. iv.20.13; Cic. ad Att. viii.7.3), and was called Moneta or ad Monetam. It seems to have been removed at the end of the first century (see Moneta), and nothing further is heard of the temple (Jord. i.2.108-111; WR 190; Rosch. ii.592-594, 603, 612; RE x.1118).
Source : Lacus Curtius
Valete,
Q. Pomponius Atticus