<< <i>I was going to add another, but my file size is too large. I thought that size was good below 250k like a few other sites. Sorry. >>
Many of us host our photos on Photobucket or similar sites, and then link the images here. The size restriction is less confining that way. I'd love to see what you have, please post a picture if you can.
Here is a great thread that describes how to link pictures from Photobucket. It looks complicated at first glance, but it's really no harder than anything else computer-related. Good luck.
You can instruct me all day long and I wouldn't grasp it. I just posted this on another site and asked someone to reduce it to thew right size. Here is 1 shot of the reverse that I already had small enough, and two of the Obverse on two different backgrounds.
<< <i>Is there a book or two or three on the subject? In english? >>
The only book that I've found that's in English is Michael Mitchiner's Jetons Medalets and Tokens Vol. 2 - Low Countries and France, which is a very informative book but a little confusing on the layout. It has a great deal of info on jetons, but isn't fully comprehensive. I guess I'll have to learn French to get the full scoop, as Feuardent's book sounds like it's the go-to reference guide. I think that's what CGB uses, along with a couple of others. There are other reference books in French, but I haven't found any English translations of them yet.
As for CGB's site, they do give you a good bit of background on their items, but your at the mercy of an online translator (like GoogleTranslate) to figure some of it out.
It would make a neat project for someone over here, to translate the available info to English and maybe get a book published with nice clear pictures and updated prices and mintage numbers. There is a lot of info out there but some of it needs to be translated.
Syl, nice pictures! I haven't seen that design before, I like how the obverse looks almost like it was stamped in there, cool!
I don't see a lot of later-date coppers, either. I think that silver became the metal of choice by the mid-1700's, making the copper ones harder to come by.
added: Just read the info from your link, good information. That would help to explain why it wasn't done in silver, and why I haven't seen this design (minted in England).
If you go to that site, or any other French site, on the google toolbar, it will say that the page is in French and do you want it translated.... bingo! instant translation. As in any verbal translation of written word, it is some awkward phrasing, but the information is all there. Something like the English translation of assembly instructions from things made in China or Japan. It worked for me on all those French Napolionic pages.
I use a combination of GoogleTranslate and Yahoo Babelfish to try to decipher their desriptions. I've found that Yahoo's is a little closer to understandable, but between the two I can usually figure most of it out. It's not the best or most efficient way, but it works.
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New one, arrived today -
1671 France - Les Assurances
<< <i>I was going to add another, but my file size is too large. I thought that size was good below 250k like a few other sites. Sorry. >>
Many of us host our photos on Photobucket or similar sites, and then link the images here. The size restriction is less confining that way. I'd love to see what you have, please post a picture if you can.
Syl,
Here is a great thread that describes how to link pictures from Photobucket. It looks complicated at first glance, but it's really no harder than anything else computer-related. Good luck.
Any other recommended websites or research material available in english? Wish this page alone were in english:
http://www.cgb.fr/monnaies/jetons/indexgb.html
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
US Rare Coin Investments
800-624-1870
Coin's for sale/trade.
Tom Pilitowski
US Rare Coin Investments
800-624-1870
<< <i>Is there a book or two or three on the subject? In english? >>
The only book that I've found that's in English is Michael Mitchiner's Jetons Medalets and Tokens Vol. 2 - Low Countries and France, which is a very informative book but a little confusing on the layout. It has a great deal of info on jetons, but isn't fully comprehensive. I guess I'll have to learn French to get the full scoop, as Feuardent's book sounds like it's the go-to reference guide. I think that's what CGB uses, along with a couple of others. There are other reference books in French, but I haven't found any English translations of them yet.
As for CGB's site, they do give you a good bit of background on their items, but your at the mercy of an online translator (like GoogleTranslate) to figure some of it out.
It would make a neat project for someone over here, to translate the available info to English and maybe get a book published with nice clear pictures and updated prices and mintage numbers. There is a lot of info out there but some of it needs to be translated.
Hope this helps.
Syl, nice pictures! I haven't seen that design before, I like how the obverse looks almost like it was stamped in there, cool!
I don't see a lot of later-date coppers, either. I think that silver became the metal of choice by the mid-1700's, making the copper ones harder to come by.
added: Just read the info from your link, good information. That would help to explain why it wasn't done in silver, and why I haven't seen this design (minted in England).
I use a combination of GoogleTranslate and Yahoo Babelfish to try to decipher their desriptions. I've found that Yahoo's is a little closer to understandable, but between the two I can usually figure most of it out. It's not the best or most efficient way, but it works.
This is one of the few jetons that features a shipyard themed design -
Mercury over the city of Rouen -
This one was made for the sea-bath industry of the early 1800's -