My New 1907 Brenner Lincoln Plaque Arrived!
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This is just too cool. Last time I felt the "thats neat " feeling like this was with my first 280Z. Anyway, its authentic, its been cleaned, but the details are nice and ...it is just too cool!!!
One of you fellows good in photoshop should pull this bust off these pics and "put" it onto a cent coin, it would be neat to see Brenners original design in the form of the coin itself!!
One of you fellows good in photoshop should pull this bust off these pics and "put" it onto a cent coin, it would be neat to see Brenners original design in the form of the coin itself!!
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Sorry, my photo shop skills are not quite up to that level yet.
Congtrats, very nice!
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What are the dimensions of it?
According to VDB, the bottom of the bust of the profile was supposed to touch the rim of the coin.. and the mint's alteration to separate them both took away from the coins "artistic design". With that in mind, this is how the cent would probably look had VDB had it his way...
1. remove IGWT,
2. insert Lincoln bust same size head as on 1909 coin, but coat & shoulder are longer;
2a. move bust upward leaving a small gap between top of head and rim;
3. crop bust just short of the rim – the originals did have space between the rim and bust.
The result should have normal sized head and longer bust w/ no motto.
(Edited to make sense...)
<< <i>By the time it took me to do the photoshop, some people have posted away their interpretations..
According to VDB, the bottom of the bust of the profile was supposed to touch the rim of the coin.. and the mint's alteration to separate them both took away from the coins "artistic design". With that in mind, this is how the cent would probably look had VDB had it his way...
I like it this way. Lincoln has much more presence when his bust bleeds to the edge of the coin.
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I like little rectangular medals and such.
Bought this 1912 Brenner plaquette last year, sold it in December. It was a cool little piece.
Stuff like this could definitely grease the skids that slide me ever closer towards the slippery slope of exonumia.
but that groove under the neck is just too much of a part of what we view as the cent. so it has to stay. The bust....I see a slight thiness to the area below the neck, almost like the coin is a bit wider at the neckline. But it is amazing that it scales down and fits in there so well you really need to look twice to see its not a real coin. Pretty need to be able to do this on the computer as well. Here is a neat shot, gets you the idea of the scale involved here.
Thanks to all for the Virtual Cent Photos!
Try looking up "Roine" or "Pratt" for Lincoln medals, then pasting the portrait onto the cent. Should be interesting.
<< <i>To get an idea of what the first pattern cents looked like (short of buying my 1909-1915 book):
1. remove IGWT,
2. insert Lincoln bust same size head as on 1909 coin, but coat & shoulder are longer;
2a. move bust upward leaving a small gap between top of head and rim;
3. crop bust just short of the rim – the originals did have space between the rim and bust.
The result should have normal sized head and longer bust w/ no motto.
(Edited to make sense...) >>
If anyone has any passing interest in Lincolns, I suggest you get RWB's book. It is well worth the purchase price.
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