Eagle collage for MacCoin (2 added for TomB)

shylock

I'm a little bored, and Mac's eagle thread stirred up my feathers. Some of my favorites:

edit: Bridgeport & Connecticut eagles added

boiler78

Now thats Cool!

09sVDB

agreed!

airplanenut

That's fantastic, Shylock! Thanks for sharing it- a mastery of digital imaging... and it looks SO DAMN COOL!!!

TomB

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY COOL!!! Would it be possible for you to add the eagles from the Connecticut and Bridgeport halves? I always thought that they were quite attractive and different than anything we produced.

MAULUMALL

That is awesome.

moursund

I just set that as my wallpaper, replacing the high-relief wire edge St. Gaudens I've been staring at for a couple of months...

Thanks!

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supercoin

I'm a little bored

Wow, what do you do when you're a lot bored? Very cool, how long did that take to trim all those out?

IrishMike

Great post, what did they grade?

DrawTwo

WOW!!! How come when I'm bored all I can produce is a mess?

That is seriously COOOOOOL!

shylock

Thanks all, I've been working on these on and off over the past half year for an eagle design related website. Glad all that cutting work in Photoshop was appreciated. The delicate leaves/arrows of the heraldic eagles really tested my patience!

Tom - It requires a fairly large, high res jpeg for these to come out nice (I need a better Ike). I'll look around for good candidates of those. Heritage's Virtual Gallery images were used for many of these, and they've been reduced quite a bit in size here (example).

braddick

My new screen saver! YES!!

KlectorKid

I like the anorexic eagle i dont know why though (last one in row 5)

Geoman

That is awesome!!!

Now, I need to go look up the Eagles I can't place...............

shylock

Tom's suggestions were excellent. The Bridgeport is the most modernistic eagle design, something I never noticed until I saw it "off" the coin. Also found a nice Connecticut -- I'll add both to the collage tomorrow.

goose3

Koolness!

drsvenghali

AWSOME eagles!!!

dbldie55

Makes me think of all the eagles I saw last weekend. (I mean the living kind, bald and golden, flying gracefully above)

Pushkin

Shylock, great collage! Only, I miss the "turkey eagle" from the patterns, like the 1858 PT16, 17, 18 ....

shylock

Not sure I miss those turkey eagles Pushkin. Thank goodness Longacre went back to the original Gobrecht design.

Added the two commem eagles to the collage. Here's the Connecticut.

ricko

Awesome work Shylock.... really impressive. Thanks so much for sharing. Cheers, RickO

IndianHeadMan

What about the Sac eagle?? It's one of the best! Did i miss it? Also if you like them the JFK Eagle and the Washington Q Eagle.

nucklehead

Very cool work.

MacCoin

Paul I'm glad I stirred your feather around a little the Bridgeport and Ct. look much better where I can really get a good look at them. that bottom bird is BAD! I love it! what coin does the beautiful eagle come from?

shirohniichan

Wow, that's really cool. Those are the best eagle collage alumni I've ever seen!

Too bad you had to cut up so many nice coins, though.

shylock

Mac -- the eagle with an attitude is from the 1879 Dollar pattern. Strangely it's paired with Morgan's "schoolgirl" Liberty. Probably the most drastically different designs you'll ever see on one coin.

Shiro -- I did feel a little guilty about slicing these coins up. Before you know it I'll be chopmarking Indian cents

TomB

Very cool, Paul! Thank you for going the extra mile and doing the additional images!