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FRIDAY is METALPÖRN DAY

WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
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What I've added to my stack this week isn't very interesting :(

But here is a concept I was working on. Not great, maybe some of you other metal photogs can improve on the idea?

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You can click on the image for a larger version.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,781 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Interesting picture, thanks :smile:

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,190 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's like the New York city skyline. :D
    That's a cool picture actually.

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  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,792 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 3, 2017 8:43AM

    I owned these for exactly 1 hour yesterday before flipping them for a little profit.

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  • hchcoinhchcoin Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss what are the two larger coins in the back right? They look really cool.

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 3, 2017 3:30PM

    @hchcoin said:
    @Weiss what are the two larger coins in the back right? They look really cool.

    Thank you! The one on the far right is a 1966 Indiana state medal. The larger one a little to the left of that medal is one of the Toivo Johnson medals. He was a coin and medal dealer who thought medals honoring famous coin engravers would be a hit with medals collectors. He had these big medals struck in .999 silver and bronze in the early 1960s by Metal Arts. Six in the series, each about 7 ounces.
    http://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2012/06/remembering-toivo-johnson.all.html

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    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I should mention the one I had pictured in the first image at the top of this thread is the one dedicated to Augustus St. Gaudens. It's a rendering of St. Gaudens' Columbian Exposition medal of 1892.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • hchcoinhchcoin Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's some of the coolest silver I have seen in a long time. Thanks for sharing.

  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,850 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice Medals!

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  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 3, 2017 5:30PM

    Thanks, guys. People either like them or hate them. We see silver rounds all the time with classic US coinage designs on them. Buffalo nickel, bust dollar, peace dollar, merc, SLQ, etc. The closer these rounds look like the actual US coin design, the better they sell and the more people want them.

    But these were all made 50+ years ago, before that concept was common--or tested for legality. Johnson was trying to keep clear of any chance that the Feds would have issues with silver medals depicting actual US Mint images. So he did interpretations of what those devices looked like, rather than exact replications. So they don't look perfect. Some people don't like that. Some people appreciate his impressions of these designs.

    In any event, these medals are becoming much more scarce. Like everything, they were melted by the bucket-full in the 1980s and 1990s. There's a set on eBay right now for $9,999. But that's absurd. Realistically they're about $300 each.

    Mine is a matching set, all edge-marked # 140

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The "Quadriga" medal had a bit of a burp when it was edge-marked. I think this makes it just a little cooler:

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Weiss .... Your picture in the OP would make a good centerfold for a numismatic magazine... like the trifold in mens magazines.... :D:D Cheers, RickO

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    @Weiss .... Your picture in the OP would make a good centerfold for a numismatic magazine... like the trifold in mens magazines.... :D:D Cheers, RickO

    That's kind of why I called these threads "metal porn" :)

    You can make out bars from 100 ounces to 1 gram in that shot. Generic rounds, Engelhard and JM rounds, old pour, stamped. I was trying to get as many interesting forms and sizes as I could into one shot.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,190 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool medals. I didn't realize at first how large they were.

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