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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
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    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."



    - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
  • pursuitoflibertypursuitofliberty Posts: 6,558 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I really like those ... nice clean lines ... makes for interesting presentations ... and helps visual set the coin out from the background IMO

    kewl stuff! image



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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very cool. How bout one with a Capped Half Dime? image
  • QuarternutQuarternut Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭
    I like your choices for the background as they all tie in with the coins presented in one way or another (such as the split rail fence for the ol' railsplitter Abe Lincoln), nice! image

    QN

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  • BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,957 ✭✭✭
    Great art using great pics. image
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Showoff. image

    The choice of backdrops on those is perfect

    That... is ART.

    Truly.

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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you had the time and inclination to do me up a suitably Roman backdrop for my Otho denarius, I'd cheerfully give up a coin or two.

    Not the Colosseum as a backdrop, though. Too overdone. Maybe something with ruins in it. Hmm. Maybe I should play around with it myself. I wouldn't be able to match your results, though.

    One of my past attempts at this was done on a smaller scale, and I think it turned out quite well. It was of a proof 2c piece I owned, and I took one of our local Golden Isles sunsets and made a backdrop, then made the resulting picture my avatar. I sold the coin to 66Tbird, who still has it and uses the avatar, now.

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    One of my others, with the holey 1796 cent from my vest, didn't come out quite as nicely, but was so-so.

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    I took my proof 1893 gold sovereign and put it over a seascape sunset and it looked pretty good, but the avatar has since died and gone red-X, and I dunno if I still have the pics, large or small, anymore. image


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  • QuarternutQuarternut Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭
    LordM, I would think a picture of the aquaducts would suffice, or a Chariot race in the Circus Maximus maybe...

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Awesome display SpaceMonkey.... thanks.. Cheers, RickO
  • dizzyfoxxdizzyfoxx Posts: 9,823 ✭✭✭
    Very, very image sm.image
    image...There's always time for coin collecting. image
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Aqueducts would be a cool backdrop for that Roman. Thanks. Good idea.

    But maybe just something pastoral with ruins in it.

    He said he would come up with something for me. Oh, goodie.

    Be thinking of what sort of gift coin you want for your services, SM. It will NOT be an Otho denarius. image

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  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those are great. Amazing work and choice of subjects.
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  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 9,953 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not sure if the theater curtain fits Lafayette very well, and it'd be way too morbid for Lincoln.
    The others I like a lot.
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Actually, the frilly 19th century stage curtains does fit Lafayette, I think, because he was wined and dined and gave speeches all over the US in later years. I remember walking down a sidewalk in Savannah and reading signs or plaques which indicated he'd stood on one of the nearby (still-existent) balconies to speak to the crowds. I thought of that when I saw those theater curtains.

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  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 9,953 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Actually, the frilly 19th century stage curtains does fit Lafayette, I think, because he was wined and dined and gave speeches all over the US in later years. I remember walking down a sidewalk in Savannah and reading signs or plaques which indicated he'd stood on one of the nearby (still-existent) balconies to speak to the crowds. I thought of that when I saw those theater curtains.

    Well, of course I won't dispute those details, but given that Lafayette was a Major General in the Continental Army during some of the Revolution's bloodiest battles, I think his most memorable exploits are far grittier than a theater curtain. I'm not saying it isn't a cool pic, I just think it doesn't quite do justice to the coin as well as it could....
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,194 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Woohoo! Spacemonkey RULES! image

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  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 9,953 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That ancient combo is very sweet!
  • holeinone1972holeinone1972 Posts: 5,348 ✭✭✭
    Very cool SpaceMonkey!
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  • added a few new ones to the mix





    -sm
  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,504 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice! I really like the Lafayette, Hibernia and 1914 Buffalo. image

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