Some new pictures of a few of my coins.

GMan

They didn't turn out too bad, but the homemade copy stand I put together requires I shoot the reverses upside down. This causes the lighting to be different from the obverses. It's a bit irritating to me. What do you guys think?

End of Pain Condor Token. One of my favorites even with the massive planchet flaw on the reverse.

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1881 $10 Liberty. Nothing special except that I own it

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1926 $2.5 Sesqui. Nice 64 specimen I think. Purchased raw.

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1942/1 Mercury Head. Frankly I think it's a 40 and I don't like the spot on the reverse but I found this in a bag of melt so it's special to me.

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That's it for now. Click on the "Large Image" link for the full size pic if you want. I just felt like sharing and any comments are welcomed.

Edit: Fixed links.

DorkGirl

That is easy to fix. Add another or move the light. The shadow is way too hard at the bottom.

GMan

I guess I could have tried moving the light . Sometimes the obvious is the hardest to sink into my thick skull.

richardshipp

I think they look good. Nice coins too.

bosco5041

Nice group of coins.

lasvegasteddy

sweet lil holdings there

Justacommeman

I especially like the Sesqui. MJ

determined

Nice pictures! The enlarged ones look great. I especially like your End of Pain even with the defect. It's a beauty.

Meltdown

The shots look good. I like that Thomas Paine token a lot. Just a bit too much light on the $10 gold piece maybe.

Raybo

Excellent images all!

breakdown

<< <i>I especially like the Sesqui. MJ >>



I'm with MJ. You don't see or hear much about the gold commems but this one looks nice. And you did all right buying it raw.

GMan

Thanks for all the comments. I think I just need to work on my lighting and get a proper copy stand. I did fix the large image link to the 1881 $10. It was linked to the 42/1 dime thumbnail by mistake.

I love that End of Pain too. I ordered it from a token dealer across the pond. I couldn't afford a problem free example but I've came the the conclusion that I was lucky because that planchet flaw is awesome. I'm starting to look for the different reverses in this token as I want one of each. I fell in love with this design the first time I saw it. I love macabre designs and this one is awesomely creepy. Not sure of the rarity or anything

Thomas Paine


<< <i>The student of that period will find some instruction in a collection, now in the British Museum, of coins and medals mostly struck after the trial and outlawry of Paine. A halfpenny, January 21, 1793: obverse, a man hanging on a gibbet, with church in the distance; motto “End of Pain”; reverse, open book inscribed “The Wrongs of Man.” A token: bust of Paine, with his name; reverse, “The Mountain in Labour, 1793.” Farthing: Paine gibbeted; reverse, breeches burning, legend, “Pandora’s breeches”; beneath, serpent decapitated by a dagger, the severed head that of Paine. Similar farthing, but reverse, combustibles intermixed with labels issuing from a globe marked “Fraternity”; the labels inscribed “Regicide,” “Robbery,” “Falsity,” “Requisition”; legend, “French Reforms, 1797”; near by, a church with flag, on it a cross. Half-penny without date, but no doubt struck in 1794, when a rumor reached London that Paine had been guillotined: Paine gibbeted; above, devil smoking a pipe; reverse, monkey dancing; legend, “We dance, Paine swings.” Farthing: three men hanging on a gallows; “The three Thomases, 1796.” Reverse, “May the three knaves of Jacobin Clubs never get a trick.” The three Thomases were Thomas Paine, Thomas Muir, and Thomas Spence. In 1794 Spence was imprisoned seven months for publishing some of Paine’s works at his so-called “Hive of Liberty.” Muir, a Scotch lawyer, was banished to Botany Bay for fourteen years for having got up in Edinburgh (1792) a “Convention,” in imitation of that just opened in Paris; two years later he escaped from Botany Bay on an American ship, and found his way to Paine in Paris. Among these coins there are two of opposite character. A farthing represents Pitt on a gibbet, against which rests a ladder; inscription, “End of P [here an eye] T.” Reverse, face of Pitt conjoined with that of the devil, and legend, “Even Fellows.” Another farthing like the last, except an added legend, “Such is the reward of tyrants, 1796.” These anti-Pitt farthings were struck by Thomas Spence. >>


--Paine and the French Revolution

Sounds like a series to collect to me