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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ColonialCoinsUK, post: 7871967, member: 114866&quot;][ATTACH=full]1356337[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Napoleon had a thing about Rome and this is reflected in everything he did, particularly on the medals of the period. I now have an example of the medal depicting the Vendome column in Paris, erected in 1810 as tribute to the Grand Armee and the Victory at Austerlitz in 1805. This was Napoleon&#039;s take on Trajan&#039;s column in Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both columns show a spiral relief of important military events, the major events of the 1805 campaign for Napoleon and in this case of Trajan the Dacian campaign. The similarity does not end there as they also seem to have had the statue on the top changed a few times over the years – Napoleon, originally dressed in Roman garb, did not survive much past 1814 and the fall of his Empire. Trajan’s column didn’t suffer the ultimate fate unlike the Vendome column which was pulled down completely in 1871 only to be re-erected a mere three years later.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a few years since I was in Rome, please post anything to do with Trajan&#039;s column![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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