The Mad king and little Vicki... edited and complete
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Edited to add: wait for it! It's coming. Darn enter key
The mad king and little Vicky
lived on pages, side by side.
An enormous copper twopence
with a three half pence did reside.
One coined to stem the tide
of a counterfeiters plan.
The other to journey far off
to West Indian waters and Ceylon.
Good King George was just a brute,
a hulking copper of giant size,
while Vicki was prim and young,
a delicate silver graced by Victoria's eyes.
As I gazed at these two coins
and struck by their very different styles,
I wondered about the centuries
and the 1000's of unrecorded miles
that conspired to bring them to me
at this point in their storied lives.
The mad king and little Vicky
lived on pages, side by side.
An enormous copper twopence
with a three half pence did reside.
One coined to stem the tide
of a counterfeiters plan.
The other to journey far off
to West Indian waters and Ceylon.
Good King George was just a brute,
a hulking copper of giant size,
while Vicki was prim and young,
a delicate silver graced by Victoria's eyes.
As I gazed at these two coins
and struck by their very different styles,
I wondered about the centuries
and the 1000's of unrecorded miles
that conspired to bring them to me
at this point in their storied lives.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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<< <i>Maybe he is trying to see how mad he can make the dead king
No question about it, the Dead King is getting mad!
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The 1841 1 1/2 pence or three half pence I picked up locally and it's a pretty coin but it's a terrible image-had a lot of trouble due to it's 12mm size.
When I opened my Coincraft to study them, there they were, side by side, paper companions, the largest and smallest english coins I own, physical opposites but together.
I was struck by that and the fact that I acquired both coins within a couple of days of each other. What a tortured and lengthy path they have taken to reach me, arriving from the far past into their future and my present. Both very interesting to read about- the Cartwheels size to make it difficult to counterfeit, the 3 half pence to do commerce's job overseas, but now 'adopted' as part of regular english coinage.
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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09/07/2006
floating in a space where
coins flash by,
emmiting strange sounds,
the beautiful ones grasped,
held,
analyzed,
and then, in a trice,
adopted.
is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
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<< <i>Yep and stay away from it
No, I wouldn't buy anything like that without seeing it. I was just wondering what they use to get their images that way - looks like animation. There's some other big shot doing it too. What is it digi-cam then software or what?
L
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Don
<< <i>Bill is that a 1d or 2d? Is it Gilt proof? Did they mint a Gilt proof 2d? >>
According to Spinks for the 2d:
Copper proof
Bronzed proof
Silver proof (wow)
Gold proof (WOW)
Gilt copper proof
And just about the same for the penny.
L
That looks spectacular, Bill -- but I've never seen one that color ... er, colour.
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