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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2699162, member: 39&quot;]Not sure whether there is an ancient coin that features the Porta Nigra. I do not collect ancients but out of curiosity searched a little ... Now what do you prefer - an authentic medieval piece, or a supposedly ancient counterfeit/fantasy? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.coingallery.de/Heilige/S/Simeon.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coingallery.de/Heilige/S/Simeon.htm" rel="nofollow">Here</a> (second coin) is a denar issued by archbishop Poppo von Babenberg. (And <a href="https://www.kuenker.de/de/archiv/stueck/62056" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kuenker.de/de/archiv/stueck/62056" rel="nofollow">this</a> is a similar one, but with fewer recognizable details.) This denar apparently shows Saint Simeon with two towers, and that is probably the Porta Nigra. Why? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symeon_of_Trier" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symeon_of_Trier" rel="nofollow">See here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there is that &quot;coin&quot; from the times of Galerius Maximianus, or rather not. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Here is an <a href="http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/germania/article/view/19641/13436" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/germania/article/view/19641/13436" rel="nofollow">article</a> (German) from 1923 that shows and explains it. This is a plaster copy of a gold, or gilded, piece with the Porta Nigra that a dealer in Trier in 1904 found to be a counterfeit. The original is lost ...</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, having been an important Roman city sure has its pluses. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> You may know that in 1993 a hoard of gold coins was found in Trier during the construction of a parking garage. More than 2,500 coins, total weight almost 20 kilos ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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