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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Yay jigsaw!
Saw this post in another place, excellent TIF.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Very nice. I had a few opportunities to get the Antonine Column issues, but decided against it. You used to be able to climb the columns for a fee (well, way way back). This led to some damage, especially to Marcus Aurelius' Column.  Interesting story, when they repaired Marcus Aurelius' column, which had also remained standing, they replaced the smashed up reliefs at its base with an inscription calling it Antoninus' column - they were mistaken, Antoninus' being long lost (though not nearly as interesting as it was made from undecorated red granite). |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The coin and post are both worthy of yet another monument.
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Pillar of the Community
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Very nice coin, I only have a poor example of Victory inscribing DACICA on a shield.
Trajan certainly was 'milking' his victory against the Dacians as much as he could.
The statue is impressive, hope everyone into Roman coins gets the opportunity to see it for him-/her-self.
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Pillar of the Community
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Love the coin, TIF. I've never been there. Ski - "Wish I had one" (coin) Well, I don't have one either, but I do own "TRAJAN'S COLUMN" (or at least a 30 cm Marble and Bronze replica).  |
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Pillar of the Community
Italy
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Wow I want one of those TC  |
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 United States
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Nice. Where did you find that?
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Thanks for the coin kudos, everyone! I'm very happy with this purchase and it's a great way to close out the coin year. I'd love to see the column in person.
@Topcat: fabulous! That's a very nice miniature.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks, TIF - I think your coin is better.
Ski - My Grandmother passed away in 1972 and I received it and four porcelain camels from her (meagre) estate. I was 'burglarized' (U.S. term) in 1979 and I lost (amongst other things) the camels (commercial value $2) but I was left 'Trajan', thankfully.
I was (and am) VERY happy.
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12/30/2014 8:07 pm
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United States
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It very nice and looks like it has some age to it. They don't make them like that any more.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
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Appreciate the link Chris. Really interesting to follow the scenes through.
Do you think that the hole in scene 6 is an unrepaired bullet hole?
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Would have had to have been a cannon ball to make a hole like that. Looks like someones either chipped off a bit of the relief, or the hole has been put there because of the lack of relief design - perhaps for use with scaffolding during restoration. Id favour it being intentional as it lies on the seam.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Obviously I made a mistake typing the attribution. Doh! This denarius was struck CE 114-115.
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