Badly OT but you'll love this collector's coin

[TomD]

This coin is made by the Mexican National Mint and is a 2005 issue 400th anniversary commemorative of Don Quijote (Spanish spelling). Only 3800 of this proof version were made. The coin is 40mm in diameter and the center portion is silver. I know a coin dealer in Mexico and got this for $24, which I consider a steal.

The reason for posting this picture is that the scene depicted on the coin is as amusing as any I've seen in any context. In short, it's a hoot.

Casa de Moneda de Mexico, the Mexican mint, makes several series of startlingly nice gold and silver coins.

 

[Dennis Sorensen]

I thought they used the peso...?

 

[Larry Elliott]

Visiting friends in south TX, and the Mexicans have some sort of festival or ? and have skeletons dressed as various things, brides, grooms, cowboys, and about anything else you can imagine. I have no idea what connection that would have with Don Quixote, but then I'm not too bright.

Like Dennis I thought that the peso was used in Mexico.

 

[alinwa]

DUDE!!! It's a graveyard loony! Easy worth 25 USD for novelty value alone

Tom your picture taking skills make me green

al

 

[John Kielly]

Seems Posada was a satirist & cartoonist in the 1800s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Guadalupe_Posada

 

[bluechip]

Wow

Like Al said, what a clear picture! Seeing as though this is the best quality picture I've ever seen in a post, what are your methods? Oh, and BTW, neat coin too!

 

[TomD]

Seems Posada was a satirist & cartoonist in the 1800s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Guadalupe_Posada

Thanks John, didn't know that, thought him contemporary.

BTW: The Mexicans do use the peso as their monetary unit but also use what we call the "dollar sign" to denote currency. The $ is commonly used around the world to denote whatever currency. Neither does the US own the word "dollar" because it is also commonly used, being a degradation of the word "thaller". The Austrian thaller silver coin was widely accepted for international trade several hundred years ago. Below is another example, if a little extreme, of a "dollar". This bill is real, talk about inflation!

 

[TomD]

Like Al said, what a clear picture! Seeing as though this is the best quality picture I've ever seen in a post, what are your methods? Oh, and BTW, neat coin too!

The pictures are not stored on BR Central, what I put into the post is a link to the location of the picture. I have an account (free) with flickr, a site where you can save and display photos. You copy the url of the picture (flickr make it easy). See the yellow button with the little mountain in it when you are composing a post here? Click it and paste the url into it. That's all.

 

[Dennis Sorensen]

I think Al was referring to the method of achieving such a high quality of picture more than the posting method.

These pictures are not just snap and photo shop...

 

[TomD]

I think Al was referring to the method of achieving such a high quality of picture more than the posting method.

These pictures are not just snap and photo shop...

Oh! Well that's simple enough. It's just like becoming competitive at BR, good equipment and a ton of practice. I'm not trying to be trite or funny, that really is it. I recommend a DSLR from any of the 5 or 6 majors and then go wear the sucker out.

I do have a secret for studio work. Secret revealed below. For this work the camera wears a very highly rated 100mm f2.8 macro lens that I'll usually shoot at f11 to keep DOF problems at a minimum.

Hint: light placement is important

 

[IndianaJames]

What kind of bulbs do you use in your lamps?

Jim

 

[Dennis Sorensen]

Your method is so good...

all I can do is hold it in my hand and try and get the reflection just right from one desk lamp ... if I am too close the focus light blinks so I back off a little until it quits and hope for the best...

 

[TomD]

Dennis, it's a little tough trying it by hand. Here's my shot of a tooney (Canadian double-dollar coin).

Edit:

What kind of bulbs do you use in your lamps?
Jim

Daylight (5500K) CF 27 Watt floods from Home Depot, $5 each.

 

[alinwa]

Let's see.... picture quality...

Dennis


Tom


hmmmmmmmmm


Dennis

Tom





Dennis
Tom







Aww heck, I'll just give it to TOM!!!!



('course Tom's loony IS in better shape too!)

al

 

[Jim Wooten]

Thanks John, didn't know that, thought him contemporary.

BTW: The Mexicans do use the peso as their monetary unit but also use what we call the "dollar sign" to denote currency. The $ is commonly used around the world to denote whatever currency. Neither does the US own the word "dollar" because it is also commonly used, being a degradation of the word "thaller". The Austrian thaller silver coin was widely accepted for international trade several hundred years ago. Below is another example, if a little extreme, of a "dollar". This bill is real, talk about inflation!

And to think, when I first hunted Zimbabwe in the early 1990's, the exchange rate was $6 Zim to $1 US . Can you say "inflation" boys and girls ?

By my last hunt there in 2004 the "unofficial" exchange rate was more like 60,000 to 1, and there were no large denomination bills available. I exchanged a few hundred US dollars and needed a small backpack to carry the Zim currency. Looks like they finally solved that problem .

Jim

 

[IndianaJames]

Daylight (5500K) CF 27 Watt floods from Home Depot, $5 each.
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Thanks, Tom. I need some of those!
Jim

 

[John Kielly]

By my last hunt there in 2004 the "unofficial" exchange rate was more like 60,000 to 1, and there were no large denomination bills available. I exchanged a few hundred US dollars and needed a small backpack to carry the Zim currency. Looks like they finally solved that problem

Nah!

That's old hat now.

In 2009, they issued new currency which was equivalent to the old stuff with 12 zeros deleted, then that went to hell & they use other countries' hard currency these days & start fires with the local stuff.