Great Medal I Picked Up Today

Darkhorse

Detailed shot:



The 1939 Royal Visit commemorative medal. This was made by the Royal Canadian Mint for the occasion and was struck in bronze, silver and even a few in gold. These are very well made and have a great design, obervers and reverse.
I picked up this very nice BU medal today for $25 Canadian. It's about the size of a Canadian nickle dollar and It's a very lusterous medal too

Luster shot:

elverno

Great medal and I love the Canadian perspective of North America!

Luvdawgs

Gorgeous one, DH. I'd love to find one like that for my collection.

Darkhorse

Maps on coins is a pretty tricky design element, quite unforgiving and rigid. In this case most of the northern islands are missing... although they may have not have been fully mapped out yet. But it's good all of Newfoundland is visible since it wasn't a part of Canada yet in 1939.

Have you seen Michigan's state quarter design? There's more of Ontario in it than Michigan.

Darkhorse

I updated the lusterous pic. Hit refresh in your browser if curious.

Askari

That's a wonderful example!!

cosmicdebris

That's a real nice medal DH

oldshep

DH - Your photographic skills are as impressive as the medal - keep on posting those goodies-every time I see your toned sig I tone a few shades of green
Shep

laurentyvan

Luster shot and detail shot-great! What were the differences in the way you imaged them to show those characteristics?

In the detail shot it looks like your lights were more direct and in the luster shot the lights were more off center?

Darkhorse

You're right on both accounts. That's basically how I did it.