Someone help, please....the darkside is calling.
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"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose.
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We'll use our hands and hearts and if we must we'll use our heads.
<< <i>Not sure why the reverse didn't come through...visit the site to see it.
Here's your reverse...
...and the obverse
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Total Copper Nutcase - African, British Ships, Channel Islands!!!
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Others I like:
German East Africa "Bird of Paradise" coins.
Sierra Leone Company: 1791 "Lion" coinage
Gorgeous coin, bet the toning is even nicer in person
Capped Bust Half Series
Capped Bust Half Dime Series
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I don't know, they're awful big suppositories.
Here's a teaser for you, Lakes.
It might take the rest of your life to complete a date run of Florins like this, but wouldn't it be fun.......
Help me!!! I'm falling into the DARK!!!!!!!!!
Thanks
Ron
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"For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
Wonderfull looking coins, by the way Tim and Bill.
Now I'm interested in seeing what the following coins look like.
Others I like: (By Rick)
German East Africa "Bird of Paradise" coins.
Sierra Leone Company: 1791 "Lion" coinage
Thanks again Ron
Herb
BTW, the German "Bird of Paradise" is from German New Guinea, not GEA. Here's the 2 Mark example (and please excuse the bad pic):
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Tom, formerly in Albuquerque, NM.
09/07/2006
1) An (unfortunately) anonymous medal commemorating King Henry IV. It is oval, which is very uncommon for non-religious medals. It is part of an undated series on French kings issued by a French private mint.
2) This is the reverse of a British Defence Medal issued at the end of WWII.
3) A dorée matte with polished rim struck for a dog show in San Remo, Italy. (Not a dog of a medal, I think you'll agree!
4) A large Portuguese medallion (90mm) by the noted medalist Cabral Antunes struck in 1985 to commemorate the 1385 Battle of Aljubarrota 1385, which was the signal event in securing Portuguese independence from Castille. Portuguese medals are superb, but much under-appreciated.
5) This bronze plaque by Max Blondat was created in 1914 and provided to those who contributed to a drive to provide clothing for French POWs during WWI. Blondat's ability to capture the complex, troubled emotions of a POW is phenomenally displayed in this work.
6) One of my favorites -- and quite hard to obtain -- is this 1872 Belgian medal by Geerts. It was issued as a commemorative souvenir for the Brussels Intl. Prehistoric Archeology & Anthropolgy Congress which was held in Furfooz, Belgium. Furfooz is a town in a remarkable natural setting where geological, botanical and entomological curiosities can be found. The site includes prehistoric caves, remains of a medieval Roman fortress and reconstituted Roman thermal baths.
7) Belgian medalist Laurent Joseph Hart was commissioned to produce this medal to commemorate the dedication of a statue to the famous Flemish baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp. It was produced at the Belgian Royal Mint in 1840.
8) The only pure silver medal among the ones shown here (the others being bronze), this 1915 German medal by the famed medalist Ludwig Christian Lauer commemorates food distribution by the German Kaiser. By 1915, as Britain tightened its blockade of German ports, food shortages and hunger among urban defense workers and their families was becoming critical and induced careful rationing. The Royal Family contributed to a fund to help procure scarce foodstuffs and this medal was issued to some of the more generous contributors. (It seems obvious from this high-quality sterling medal that silver bullion was easier to come by than beef bullion.)
9) Jules-Prosper Legastelois produced this 1914 French medal commemorating the 1st Battle of the Marne. The obverse (not shown) portrays the three French generals considered to be the heroes of that battle: Joffre, Mauntoury & Gallieni. (I rather think the poilus were the real heroes.)
10) Undoubtedly one of my "top 10" favorites, Charles Philippe Germain Aristide Pillet designed this 1916 French medal commemorating the Battle of Verdun. It is a fantastic creation with the Imperial German eagle warily eyeing the camaraderie of Britannia and Marianne facing off against him side-by-side. A daunting prospect indeed!
11) Another of Charles Pillet's work, this "Agriculture" plaque was issued for the Caisse Régionale du Midi. Pastorales were a popular theme at that time, but I doubt ploughing ever held so fine a bucolic reward.
12) Anton Scharff was one of the most illustrious medalists of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and also was a favorite of the Romanian court. This medal commemorates the jubilee -- 25th year of reign -- of King Carol in 1891.
13) Now here's one every Litesider should strive to add to their numismatic holdings. This is the official 1893 Columbian Expo award medallion designed by Augustus St. Gaudens (obv.) and Charles Barber (rev.). As is well-known here, Barber was jealous of St. Gaudens' prowess and rejected St. Gaudens' reverse design substituting his own, more bawdlerized ambition. These award medals were issued in a special-made Scovill aluminum case. An insert die was used to add the award recipient's name to the medal (and I actually have a rare unassigned example
St. Gaudens trained under some of the masters of his age in -- don't groan -- France. At that time, the art nouveau movement had revitalized medallic artistry (which is what coin designers do to put food on the table and master their art in between the rare engagement to design a coin), and with St. Gaudens, under President Teddy Roosevelt's encouragment and support, American coinage underwent a tremendous renaissance, producing most of its loveliest designs ... before sadly devolving to bland dead president profiles.
14) Adolph Alexander Weinman, another great American medalist, was engaged to produce the award medals for the 1904 St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Expo. These medals -- plaques, really -- came in different shapes for the different degrees of award: Bronze (round), Silver (square), Gold (triangle), and Grand Prize (pentagon). All were struck in bronze, despite the award name, and other than the shape of the plaque they each used the same overall design theme.
15) Last, but not least, the outstanding Belgian medalist Jozeph Witterwulghe rendered this powerful silverplated bronze Peace Medal in 1919, following the end of WWI. What better way to illustrate the close interweaving of the art of the medal with that of coinage! ... and to think, this is all Dark to you Litesiders.
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Thanks for sharing,
Ray
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Just be careful you don't get a liking for the kind pictured below - could be a black hole!
This is interesting as the Emperor shown is Commodous - the same Emperor in the Movie "The Gladiator" - Commodous believed he was Hercules re-incarnated and as you can see he has the Lion skin that Hercules killed draped over his head and on the reverse the symbols of Hercules - Commodous actually dressed as Hercules and fought in the Collisium in Rome - but he DIDN'T loose, so that part of the Gladiator was fiction.
Here's another interesting coin - struck about 500 years earlier: Anyone konw who the portrait is?
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Sure makes the last 100 years of US coins look pathetic.
Trish and Ron
If it's calling ..................Answer.
Cap'n Ron, yes, they've all been presented at one time or another on the Dark Side. Trying to track down the specific threads might be a challenge, but I'll at least edit the "folio" and add some information. These are by no means all of my nicest ones, just some for which I currently have pics uploaded.
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<< <i>Here's another interesting coin - struck about 500 years earlier: Anyone konw who the portrait is?
Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great's father.
-JamminJ
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TTT'ing this for those that missed out on the additional comments about the history and sculpters of these awsome pieces.
Thanks again.
Ron
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<< <i>Here's another interesting coin - struck about 500 years earlier: Anyone konw who the portrait is?
Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great's father.
Actually the coin is struck in the name of Philip of Macedon by Phillip's son (and Alexander the Great's Half-brother), Phillip III - known as Arrhidaeus. The texts on ancient coins will tell you that its the portrait of Apollo, but who is the real portrait on the coin?
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain
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