Indian Heads
Single nicest and most unusual us design
Exhibit: Wild Mustangs Stampeding: Photographed Summer of 2008
Exhibit: Wild Mustangs Stampeding: Photographed Summer of 2008
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US Gold Coins
Originally I scanned coins on an HP Flatbed Scanner. But over time I've come to understand that modern digital cameras actually capture even more detail than a scanner, exposing even details not visible by the naked eye. These pictures are scans. The linked images are from a Sony Cybershot camera.
Dinobird prehistoric fun
Dinobird prehistoric fun
Barber Half Dollars
he Barber's where a family that served as cheif engravers for the US Mint for much of the middle 19th century and worthy a substantial write up which is covered in the section of Barber Half Dollars. What I find nice about these coins, especially the quarter dollars, is that the coins wear with use very nicely, perhaps nicer than any other design ever created worldwide. This was part of the guiness of the Barbers. While it was complained that their designs were mundane, they had expert and asthetic focus on the life cycle of coins in commerce. And their work shows their attention to this detail. Unlike nearly any other artists who designed coins, they understood that coins circulate and the designs needed to continue to be attractive and viewable as they moved through their life cycle. This caused a lot of head butting with later designs which had significant problems with wear include many beloved designs which honestly didn't wear well, including the Buffalo Nickel and Standing Liberty Quarter.
Roosevelt Dimes
With the death of Franklin Roosevelt in 1945 at the close of World War II, the nation mourned it's leader, for many the only President they had ever known, with the installment of Franklin's image on the US Dime. Roosevelt was closely associated with the "March of Dimes" charitable campaign against birth defefects. And with this, all the work to beautify our coinage under Teddy Roosevelt was completely undone and we had dead Presidents on all our coinage, the Cent, Nickel, Quarter and finally the Dime.
Jefferson Silver War Nickels
The Jefferson Nickel, of course, was produced with the durable and hard metal alloy which was in large part nickel (25% Nickel and 75% Copper). With the advent of World War Two, this metal, for those attributes, became a critical material for armaments production, along with copper. During these years, those metals were actually more valuable than silver. The mint was authorized to reduce the depenecey of coinage on copper and nickel, which resulted in the design of the silver wartime nickel and the steal cents.
Flying Eagles
http://www.mrbrklyn.com/flying_eagle.htmlThe Flying Eagle Cent is my favorite coin. It has a long history for a small coin. Until the Flying Eagle, US Cent coins were large coppers such as you can see in the Large Cent area of this reference. As the value of money slowly changed, these large coins became increasingly less favorable with the public because of their size. In addition, as strange as it would seem, large cents, despite being minted by the Government, weren't legal tender and banks often refused them! And by 1951 the cost of making them was greater than the face value of the coin.
numastics and lobbying - contin ued
https://www.money.org/collector/mrbrklyn/blog/numismatics-and-lobbying-In addition to national level lobbying, there are open issues with local law and law enforcement with regard to coin collecting. The regulation of pawn shops is a huge problem ans coins are stolen and end up either at local dealers or pawn shops that are not nearly regulated as much as they should be. This puts all collectors at risk.
The real Golden Dollar
When the SACAGAWEA golden dollar was introduces in 2000, it afforded collectors several rare oppurtunities. The design was gorgeous and the eagle ground breaking. Collectors quickly discovered varieites that caused a coin hunt that still continues, to include the Cherio dollar and the Goodacre dollars. But the mint never released what the public was really starving for ... which was a REAL mitage of real gold golden dollars....Or so you may have thought. But the Mint actually did make real gold golden dollars, and they were on display at the ANA meeting at Milwaukee in 2007. Eileen Collins, of NASA. She was the first women astronaut to command a space shuttle and she carried with her 12 - 22 carot gold Sacagawea dollars that launched with Callenger. 39 were minted and 27 were melted down straight away. The 12 best were selected to go on the voyage and ended up in the end at Fort Knox for posperity. They are W mint marked, and have full tail feahers.https://www.coinnews.net/2007/07/18/22-karat-golden-sacagawea-space-dollars-landing-in-milwaukee/https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal-programs/circulating-coins/sacagawea-golden-dollar
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