Home› World & Ancient Coins Forum
Options

Post Your Rams

harashaharasha Posts: 3,079 ✭✭✭✭✭
in World & Ancient Coins Forum

For some reason, I find the ram of Schaffhuasen to be enormously appealing. This is a shooting medal from 1956.
The quality of the imaging is poor, I know. I was experimenting with a 50mm, f/1.4 lens and the results were disappointing for anything less than say - 50mm in diameter. (diameter is circumstantial, here). Good result, though for larger pieces such as my next post and imaging of mineral specimens.

Honors flysis Income beezis Onches nobis Inob keesis

DPOTD

Comments

  • Options
    StorkStork Posts: 5,205 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 31, 2019 9:43AM

    Is that ram licking his nostrils? That is so cool. I'm not sure I have any ram coins or medals. This will be a challenge. Swiss shooting medals are cool.

  • Options
    harashaharasha Posts: 3,079 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The ram certainly has its tongue outstretched. I believe that there is some heraldic meaning to that.

    Honors flysis Income beezis Onches nobis Inob keesis

    DPOTD
  • Options
    IosephusIosephus Posts: 872 ✭✭✭

    Nice detail on that ram. Here's one (representing the Golden Fleece) on the reverse of a medal of Charles the Bold (c. 1474):

    Joe
    Virtus Collection - Renaissance and Baroque Medals
Sign In or Register to comment.