Ok....here I am! A darkside Newbie!!
TheLiberator
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I have been tempted to have a look at the wonderful wares of the darkside!! Please, show me somtehing neat!!! Pics please!! I just recently (today) learned wehat the term darkside meant and so now I have to see the shadowy trinkets of the trade! I have checked out Goetz's work and I have been amazed. Also, being involved in an artistic industry myself, I think many U.S. coins are SERIOUSLY lacking in beauty.
So, show me your bounty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, show me your bounty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Another newbie, welcome. Let me just say that everyone I have met on here has been real nice and I'm sure you will be welcomed with open arms. I haven't got any pics for you but I am hoping to have a session with the camera this weekend so please check back next week (I may even own a coin worthy of this forum by then!)
Dr J
My omnicoin collection (or how my coin photography has progressed)
BTW, Voigt trained under Pistrucci
What I like about the Darkside is that coins don't have to be grand and glorious and full of color to have interest. Take this 1949 2 PE from Burma (Myanmar). Great Obverse of Chinze (to really appreciate this figure, it's usually beautifully rendered on Myanimar currancy.)
Plus a little bit of history as background.
The Mon are the earliest known inhabitants of lower Burma. They founded an empire, and introduced both writing and Buddhism into Burma.
In the year 573, two Mon brothers, Prince Samala and Prince Wimala, founded the Mon kingdom Hongsavatoi at the present site of modern Pegu. This kingdom flourished in peace and prosperity for several centuries until it was occupied by the Burman dynasty.
In 1757, the Burma ruler U Aungzeya invaded and devastated the Mon kingdom, killing tens of thousands of Mon, including learned Mon priests, pregnant women, and children. Over 3,000 priests were massacred by the victorious Burmans in the capital city alone. Thousands more priests were killed in the countryside.
The surviving priests fled to Thailand, and Burman priests took over the monasteries. Most of the Mon literature, written on palm leaves, was destroyed by the Burmans. Use of the Mon language was forbidden, and Burman became the medium of instruction.
Mon people were persecuted, oppressed, and enslaved, and countless people were burned in holocausts, like the Jews before the Nazis. Mon properties and possessions were looted and burned throughout Burma. Mons fled further south into Burma's Tenasserim Division and east into Thailand.
Unfortunately, the oppression of the Mon people has persisted to the present day.
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
Here-I'll follow Tbirde
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
Stick around and enjoy.
Shep
Japanese 50 sen
2001 proof Britannia
1997 proof Britannia
Some of my old scanned pictures, but I haven't taken many new ones lately.
Cathy
FOR SALE Items
karlgoetzmedals.com
secessionistmedals.com
The images are not as good as I like, but I currently don't have a host for pictures so have to keep them under 50kb.
Ebay name: bhil3
Restrike of a 1663 medal of Louis XIV:
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Since it's Eastertide, here's a 1997 German Easter medal d'après Albrecht Dürer:
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A 1914 French plaque by Max Blondat, d'après Forain, for a drive to collect clothing for French POWs during WWI:
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"Flore" by the French medalist Maurice Delannoy:
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An Old Prussian Evangelical Church golden wedding anniversary table medal:
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A 'Silver Medal' (they were all bronze actually) awarded at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Expo in St. Louis:
Come on over ... to The Dark Side!
Mark
Panama Balboa 1947 KM13
Danzig10 Pfennig 1932 KM 152
Isle of Man 2 Pence 1971 KM21
Italy 2 Lire 1940 Km38B
Philippines Culion Leper Colony 1922 1 PesoKM15
What is the coin in your sig line? It is very compelling...
Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
They're distracting.
Favorite modern: 1987 UK 100 Pound gold Britannia
I like the darkside. You all are more mello in comparison to the "other" forum.
Mark, do you have any idea what the significance is of the countermark on your 1 Peso Culion token???
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5
"For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
No I have never had the time to reasearch it. To tell the truth I forgot about it untill I pulled up the scan on the computer.
Mark
Come on over ... to The Dark Side!
So you consider your new one pretty?
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato