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Metal Porn - Friday, January 30th 2015 - Metal Porn

JohnnyCacheJohnnyCache Posts: 1,757 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I'll start off the Metal Porn thread this week with a couple of recent newps from Dan Carr.
Though I realize these pieces aren't your typical bullion they are none the less precious to me. image

I enjoy Spanish colonial coins in my coin collection and so it was a natural attraction for me when I saw Dan's rendition of Spanish cob treasure coins.

I'm not sure how accurately the image scans will capture the coins true appearance but I can attest that they are really quite nicely made.


JC


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Charles III Album

Charles III Portrait Set

Charles IV Album

Charles IV Portrait Set

Spanish Colonial Pillar Set

Comments

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,106 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those coins are really neat. Dan Carr does great work.

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  • rawteam1rawteam1 Posts: 2,472 ✭✭✭
    rare pickup at long beach yesterday...
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    keceph `anah
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,106 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Neat bar. Don't recognize the logo. Who made it?

    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

  • rawteam1rawteam1 Posts: 2,472 ✭✭✭
    Alexander Westerfall Smelters & Refiners

    minted in the 1970's by Alexander Westerfall Smelter & Refiners, located in Mojave, Ca, he registered the "sun" pattern hallmark in 1975 as a matter of record b the silver institute in Rosamond, Ca., A&W refined ores from local mines, Tropico Gold Mine, Silver Queen Mine & Tropico Rooster Red Mine, the Aztec Sun logo identifies the Silver Queen Mine 1970


    keceph `anah
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I actually like those Dcarr pieces, JohnnyCache.

    My meager pickup this week was similarly themed. Bought it from my old B&M's new owner. First 8 reale I've ever owned in 40 years of collecting if I recall correctly.

    It's got some surface staining, a few scuff marks. A few chops, too, which I think is kinda cool. It's far from perfect, but I think that's part of its charm.

    Anyway. Came across his counter a week ago and I kept mulling it over. He offered it to me cheap today, so I snagged it.

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  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice pick-ups, fellas. Thanks for
    sharing !!! image
    Timbuk3
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice old 8 Reale Weiss..... and those dcarr pieces are neat, worth having a couple .... Cheers, RickO
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,294 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i like the bar image
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thank you, Sir. One of those wonderful coins that it's actually ok (and even beneficial) to play with, pocket piece, etc.

    Realized this morning that the numeral was IIII instead of IV. I googled to find out why. Interesting article, showing roman numerals were far from universal like we might imagine. IIII is additive rather than subtractive (IV), which was easier for some people to understand. Also appears to have been a specific preference of Charles IIII:

    Alternative forms of roman numerals
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  • ZubieZubie Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭✭
    I love those DC coins Mr. Cash.

    5 rolls of these are being held at the Post Office.

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