Column of Trajan

The Column of Trajan is a 100 foot column pictorial narrative of the Dacian campaigns. This pieces really took my breath away. To see how much detail went into this giant column is un heard of that is why I chose to show two pictures. The first thing that came to my mind was how long it must have took to plan and complete this piece! Now a days no one would take the time to even attempt this! We are too impatient now with all of our technology and whats sad is that even if someone did do something like this i don't think it would even get the praise it should recieve! Just from reading the short writing about it i really want to look up the really stories to so i can relate them to the pictures. Just an amazing piece.

Money!

Does that little coin look like something we all know and love? Of course it does that is money just like the coins we use here in United States as money. I thought it was really cool to see this old form of money. I really love to see different forms of money and even more i love to see really old pieces of money. This just goes to show how much history influences the present. People have been using coin money since the beginning of civilized society! And amazingly it really has not changed. Both coins use a historical figure for there respected counties in a side view, Both made of a metal and both a circular shape. It would be cool to had that piece to my coin collection. =)