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If you had the equipment and the skill to produce coinage....
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...What would it be?
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<< <i>My own designs in silver and gold... simple non-political designs. >>
And, in addition to the above, I wouldn't do it using a computer program that makes it seem sterile and take away true art.
That is, assuming as in your premise, that I had the skill
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
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Edited to say, not what you wouldnt do, but what would you do?
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I could do a series of my ex-wives... that should last a lifetime!
Ron
Edited to add: Not sure rendition is the correct word so let me say a portrait of Liberty.
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I could do a series of my ex-wives... that should last a lifetime!
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<< <i>My own designs in silver and gold... simple non-political designs. >>
And, in addition to the above, I wouldn't do it using a computer program that makes it seem sterile and take away true art.
That is, assuming as in your premise, that I had the skill
You think a hand-sculpted proof US Silver Eagle isn't "sterile" ?
The level of sterility of modern MS/PR 70 coins has nothing to do with hand-sculpting vs. computer-sculpting.
PS:
I push digital "clay" around with my mouse. So I am, in effect, sculpting by "hand".
And, by the way, I wrote the sculpting program myself - like any other artist who makes their own tool.
Beating the US Mint at their own game ?
Like this (non-legal-tender) Palladium "Eagle" - to be minted soon:
<< <i>>>> If you had the equipment and the skill to produce coinage....What would it be? <<<
Beating the US Mint at their own game ?
(Like this Palladium "Eagle" - to be minted soon):
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That specific design or the concept?
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<< <i>>>> If you had the equipment and the skill to produce coinage....What would it be? <<<
Beating the US Mint at their own game ?
(Like this Palladium "Eagle" - to be minted soon):
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That specific design or the concept? >>
The specific design shown. The dies are already done, now I need some palladium blanks. I intend to mint no more than 50 pieces.
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<< <i>>>> If you had the equipment and the skill to produce coinage....What would it be? <<<
Beating the US Mint at their own game ?
(Like this Palladium "Eagle" - to be minted soon):
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That specific design or the concept? >>
The specific design shown. The dies are already done, now I need some palladium blanks. I intend to mint no more than 50 pieces. >>
Oh, I thought when you said "Beating the US Mint at their own game" you meant that the US Mint was going to use your design.
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<< <i>>>> If you had the equipment and the skill to produce coinage....What would it be? <<<
Beating the US Mint at their own game ?
(Like this Palladium "Eagle" - to be minted soon):
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That specific design or the concept? >>
The specific design shown. The dies are already done, now I need some palladium blanks. I intend to mint no more than 50 pieces. >>
Oh, I thought when you said "Beating the US Mint at their own game" you meant that the US Mint was going to use your design. >>
I'm not in the US Mint's inner circle, so I have no avenue to submit any designs and have them actually be considered.
When I heard about the legislation that called for the US Mint to produce a Palladium Eagle bullion coin, and that it was to have the "Mercury" Dime obverse and a Weinman medallic Eagle reverse, I decided to produce my own version using my own Winged Liberty Head / Eagle design. I think the long neck of Liberty on the Mercury dime may look a bit awkward on a larger coin.
Ron
Ron, good but more detail in your idea.
Kiyote, Key date Morgans might put you under scurtiny here
DC, nice, but I can only afford that in silver
To answer my own question, as a fan a nature I would lean in that direction, birds of the Corvid family would suit me fine. But then, the sky is the limit eh?
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if i had the equip to design/produce my own currency/coins
i would dig up the artists of old and get some smelling salts and put them to work
get them some nice bottles of red or some moonshine and let their creative nature flow
show these people today the meaning of artwork!
with mint marks, letters, numbers etc double, quadrupled along with numbers punched all over the place (mpd) and many many double and tripled struck coins
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Edited to say, not what you wouldnt do, but what would you do? >>
I'd do different liberties and I would also do US wildlife, to include butterflies....I like butterflies
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment
<< <i>By the way D. Carr, very nice design and a very nice looking coin. One question if I may, what is the value of Palladium?
Ron >>
Right now, palladium is about $770 per troy ounce.
Due to the fact that only 50 will be made, I'll probably price them in the $1,100-$1,200 range - above the symbolic "face value" of $1,000 (not legal tender).
Good one.
I have been thinking about this. I liked Gasparro's idea of bringing back the Phrygian cap on his Flowing Hair Liberty that should have been the small dollar instead of the SBA. The Phrygian, or Liberty Cap, to represent Freedom. We are a Free country and we plan on staying that way. I also liked the 10 sides he placed around the obverse and reverse of the coin it gave the coin a classic look. I liked MacNeil's Liberty, standing in a doorway, offering an Olive branch of peace to the world but carrying a shield to let the world know we will defend ourselves. I have always heard the rumor in my 50 plus years of collecting coins that MacNeil added the chain mail to Liberty after our involvement in WWI. Now this is a rumor and I can't prove it or even tell where I heard or read this thought. I have always liked Weinman's Liberty on the Walking Liberty Half. She carries herself with a grace and dignity that only free people can possess as she leads an expanding country westward. As for the reverse. We have almost always shown the eagle with spread wings ready to take flight as our country grew. It is time to bring her to rest, place her on a nest of eaglets, maybe with her mate or a convocation of eagles protecting her home. Somewhere in all these likes is a design for a coin but I am not an artist.
Ron
<< <i>i would dig up the artists of old and get some smelling salts and put them to work. >>
Zombie coins!!! COOL!!!
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
As to what I would do.. well, not sure, but -IF i had the talent (I don't)... it would likely be in gold, and would be of an artistic nature - i.e. renditions of beauty in nature. Cheers, RickO
<< <i><< i would dig up the artists of old and get some smelling salts and put them to work. >>
Zombie coins!!! COOL!!!
It might take a bit more than smelling salts to rearticulate a skeleton. Some of these engravers are gonna need you to collect all their scattered fingerbones and reassemble 'em so they've got hands to work with.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
Lance.
<< <i>Due to the fact that only 50 will be made, I'll probably price them in the $1,100-$1,200 range - above the symbolic "face value" of $1,000 (not legal tender). >>
Err, is that $1000 going to be on the final design? I'm not sure I see anything symbolic in that; it just flat out says $1000. Sorta like what Norfed was doing, but the Norfed round didn't say: "United States of America" or "E Pluribus Unum". Maybe Bernard von NotHaus can weigh in.
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<< <i>Due to the fact that only 50 will be made, I'll probably price them in the $1,100-$1,200 range - above the symbolic "face value" of $1,000 (not legal tender). >>
Err, is that $1000 going to be on the final design? I'm not sure I see anything symbolic in that; it just flat out says $1000. Sorta like what Norfed was doing, but the Norfed round didn't say: "United States of America" or "E Pluribus Unum". Maybe Bernard von NotHaus can weigh in. >>
Norfed had an organization that actively promoted their tokens to be used in commerce as actual legal tender.
I knew it would happen.
<< <i>Dan, that's excellent design work, in my opinion. It'll be hard not to buy one or two of those, unless I run out of cash first. Will your coin press be able to generate enough striking pressure to do a 1 oz sized coin out of palladium? >>
Yes, I think so. Fully-annealed palladium isn't any harder than nickel, and I've struck 39mm nickel medals before.
Reverse would be "constitution" rights:
Right to vote 1¢
Right to free speech 5¢
Right to bare arms 10¢
etc
"rights" written within wheat stalks (cents reverse) or wreath motif, etc.
Put what this country is famous for, our liberties.
bob