Lego fun, Vol.2: The Porta Nigra

Here is my LEGO try on the Porta Nigra, the largest extant Roman city gate north of the Alps, ordered by Marcus Aurelius to guard the northern entry of Augusta Trevorum (modern Trier)

 

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That's pretty awesome man

 

Nice work, looks very intricate.

 

Really nice!
I was wondering if the left side on the top was actually ever fully constructed as the right side was.
If so it would of looked like this image I want to share from the web -
Have any extra Lego blocks?

 

Very nice!

 

Great! Looks like the real deal. I've been there last year, we passed by Trier when returning from Belgium/Luxembourg. Oops... I am posting on the dark side of CT again...


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cool

 

That is really nice, J-G.
Very creative! It looks quite realistic.

We visited there a few years ago as well. Trier is worth a visit for anyone who interested in roman history or numismatics.

 

Wow! That's impressive!!

 

It was, but the during the Middle Ages the Christians turned it into a church and decided that as such it only "needed" one tower :-(.
I actually stopped where I did because I ran out of round tan-colored Lego bricks (some of them as rare as some ancient coin types), but there are more on the way

 

The nerd in me: cool!

The parent in me: where is he getting all these blocks?

The ancient history buff in me: gotta go look up the Porta Nigra.

 

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Now you all will hate me forever.

 

... it can be quite addictive because it makes everything possible that was not possible to build with Lego when we were young.
It is the place where you can get everything that you need to build whatever you could imagine (some artist DID build a life sized Primaporta Augustus statue for example) if you have the skills, time, and money.
Hell, it makes me feel like a kid in the chocolate factory...

 

Nicely done!

 

Excellent!

 

Fantastic!!

 

Impressive JG! Well done!
From someone who never had LEGO.

 

Very cool! Now...any coins featuring it?

 

Since you did not ask about coins from any specific period ...

This German commemorative €2 coin was issued about two months ago. It is the Rhineland-Palatinate piece from the "German States" series. On the left, the mint mark (in this case, A = Berlin), at the bottom the "D" country code, on the right the "Ch" signature of the designer František Chochola. The other side is the regular €2 reverse.

The Porta Nigra is also part of the design of a €100 gold coin (Unesco World Heritage series) issued in 2009, see here. I don't have that one though ...

Edit: That gold coin shows the cathedral (Dom) and the Lady's Church (Liebfrauenkirche) at the top, and the Porta Nigra on the left. You can also see the Roman Bridge, the Igel Column (in a suburb of Trier), the Imperial Baths and the Constantine Basilica. The designer Michael Otto did not depict all buildings as that would have made the coin "too full".

Christian

 

Well done @chrisild !