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Post by skywalker on Jun 22, 2012 8:00:28 GMT -6
Thanks, Jo. I was keeping tabs on the controversey about the Canadian coin when it first came out but after looking at it closely I think it is just an optical illusion. It is just a young boy in the canoe instead of an alien. I can see how people can mistake it for something else the way it is drawn though. Maybe I will post that one here also so people can see what the hubbub is about.
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Post by skywalker on Jun 22, 2012 8:06:45 GMT -6
What do these words mean on the coin? What does the backside of it look like? Have you ever seen the backside? Does look alien if real. Never heard of a hobo nickle.. ha ha.. lets see one, pretty please!! It if is a coin I'm interested. Why would they get money for a five cent piece. It is still a five cent piece is it not? I've never found a picture of the back of the coin. They just always show the front of it. I still don't know what the story is behind it either...where it came from, who has it, etc... Nobody ever gives any details besides the photo. It looks to me like it is an old coin that has been altered so the letters on it could either be Greek or Latin if it was from Rome. I haven't been able to figure out what it says yet. (I must have slept through my ancient language classes in school ) I'll post some photos of some hobo nickels so you can see what they look like.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2012 10:29:40 GMT -6
I don't think the Canadian coin looks like an alien either Sky. Maybe post a pic and see what others think. I did think the one Washington coin was kind of cool ..with photoshop..anything can look like an alien
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Post by lois on Jun 22, 2012 11:45:47 GMT -6
Thank you.. I would like to see those hobo nickles ;D ;D
I posted a coin on FB I found, it is really one of a kind as far as people knowing what it was.
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Post by Morgan Sierra on Jun 25, 2012 20:30:38 GMT -6
Hobo nickels and other novelty coinsI promised Shami I would talk about the hobo nickel so here I go. The hobo nickel is a type of novelty coin, or "art" coin. It's a regular coin that has been modified or redesigned to add some artistic or collectible value to it...kind of like a gold-plated coin or those colorized statehood quarters. The people who modify them then hope that they can sell them and make a profit. colorized statehood quarters The hobo nickel originally started out as normal buffalo, or indian head nickels. These nickels were an ideal start for an art coin because the head on the buffalo nickel was very large, taking up 5/6 of the coin's surface, whereas normal coins only took up about 1/3 of a coin. This large head gave the artist a very large area to work with. This was also the first American coin that had a male face on it. All the coins before this one portrayed female images, usually of Lady Liberty. The male indian face had very rugged features and characteristics and lent well to a lot of designs. There are two different theories as to how the hobo nickels got their name...one is that they were often carved by hobos, or homeless people who wandered around the country trying to scrounge a living however they could. Back in the early part of the century when the buffalo nickel first debuted there were a lot of homeless drifters who wandered from place to place. The numbers drastically increased during the Great Depression when many people lost their jobs, their homes and all of their money. They had to earn a living somehow and carving and selling nickels was a cheap form of labor. The second possible explanation for why they were called hobo nickels is because the hobo was actually a favorite topic for the artists. It was very easy to make a few changes to the indian head on the front in order to create an image that resembled the stereotypical hobo. Many of the original designs were actually carved by hobos using nothing more than a knife to etch the design into the coin. They were very crude in some cases, depending on the skill of the artist. Some of the later ones, or those done by more skilled artists showed some very talented artwork. They were much more refined and polished like some of these examples. The coin artists who got started back in the early 1900s continued working and improving their skills and over the years they began to produce some really amazing pieces of artwork, especially as technology improved. They did not always stick with the tried and true hobo as a design either. Other people and images were carved as well. With the recent popularity of UFOs and the paranormal it naturally was only a matter of time before paranormal subjects started showing up. Here are a few that people here might enjoy seeing. By the 1970s and 80s the buffalo nickels that were in circulation had pretty much disappeared. After that the only place they could be obtained was from coin dealers who charged quite a bit of money for the ones that weren't totally worn out. It was no longer profitable for people to carve the nickels because they had a hard time selling them and getting their money back. Some of the old time artists continued making them up until their deaths while the newer generation of coin artists switched to other coins like the new Jefferson nickel or the Kennedy half dollar. Many people started using paint to alter coins instead of carving them...a cheaper and therefor easier way of making money. I prefer the earlier ones because they are a unique part of history. Over the past century about a hundred thousand of the buffalo nickels were altered by artists. Some of the early ones, especially from a few well known carvers can be worth quite a bit of money now. The value of the newer ones depends on the design and how much effort went into it. Cheaper ones can be had for just a few dollars. That's still not bad for something that started out as just a nickel...especially with a homeless person carving on it with a knife and wondering where his next meal would come from. The hobos are pretty much gone now...just like the indians and the buffaloes that used to be depicted on the coins. They are now nothing more than a memory. But their legend will always live on in the nickels that they carved and the images that they left behind.
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Post by lois on Jun 25, 2012 21:28:08 GMT -6
sky. this is so funny.. ;D ;D I cannot stop laughing. .. the poor Indian head sure took a pounding . I have never seen one of these or even heard of one. All I ever wanted was to find a rare 1914 Indian head nickle . And I did over in the lake. As a child our Dad told us too look for one in any nickles we came across. It was rare to find a buffalo in the 50s when I was a teen. And here I wanted to find a rare one. Thanks for posting these, I copied it all ..
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Post by lois on Jun 25, 2012 21:30:11 GMT -6
Did they change the buffalo on the tale side of the coin as well?
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Post by skywalker on Jun 25, 2012 21:32:33 GMT -6
They sometimes did the back of the coin. The ones with the ufo, the boat and the train were all done on the buffalo side.
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Post by lois on Jun 25, 2012 21:35:13 GMT -6
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Post by lois on Jun 25, 2012 21:36:19 GMT -6
Sorry it was the seated liberty quarter . I have a few of them found another this past spring.
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Post by lois on Jun 25, 2012 21:39:49 GMT -6
They sometimes did the back of the coin. The ones with the ufo, the boat and the train were all done on the buffalo side. Those mint marks are so durable and strong, I do not know how they ever flattened some of them down to put some of these photos on them. A buffalo took up the whole tail side. As the Indian also did. I could never even figure out how our hands were such durability down on them either.
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Post by lois on Jun 25, 2012 21:40:47 GMT -6
Wore not were. lol
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Post by skywalker on Jun 25, 2012 21:50:34 GMT -6
I think that this "alien" coin was done the same way as the hobo nickels. Somebody just took an old coin, probably from Greece, and carved the design down so that it looked like an alien. If you look closely at it you can still see some of the human features, like the shoulders, neck and the eyes.
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Post by lois on Jun 25, 2012 22:27:46 GMT -6
I think that this "alien" coin was done the same way as the hobo nickels. Somebody just took an old coin, probably from Greece, and carved the design down so that it looked like an alien. If you look closely at it you can still see some of the human features, like the shoulders, neck and the eyes. Sky notice the line at the bust, It could very well of been the draped bust coin. I would post one here but do not know how. It is on the silver dollar early 18 hundreds I believe. It could be the silver half not sure. I'm going to check it out right now.
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Post by lois on Jun 25, 2012 22:36:05 GMT -6
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Post by lois on Jun 25, 2012 22:38:23 GMT -6
I will go though my coin books tomorrow . Do you know of a coin like this I'm speaking of?
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Post by lois on Jun 25, 2012 22:40:51 GMT -6
The print letters is not american though
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Post by skywalker on Jun 26, 2012 7:55:58 GMT -6
I'm guessing it is probably from somewhere in Europe from back in the early 1800s or maybe late 1700s. That style of dress like on the draped bust was common on coins back then. The one side over the shoulder thing is how they used to dress back in ancient Greece and Rome and other European countries way back then.
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Post by lois on Jun 26, 2012 21:33:15 GMT -6
I'm guessing it is probably from somewhere in Europe from back in the early 1800s or maybe late 1700s. That style of dress like on the draped bust was common on coins back then. The one side over the shoulder thing is how they used to dress back in ancient Greece and Rome and other European countries way back then. Yes.... I was going to make a longer most and mention the over one Shoulder. I think of Romans.. Im sure all the books I have I have seen a coin with over the shoulder garment. But I do know their is a coin like this, I have seen it. Maybe not United States minted. I don't study foreign coins unless I find one out detecting.
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Post by Morgan Sierra on May 20, 2014 23:24:22 GMT -6
Dallas Comic Con
I'm back from my visit to the Dallas Comic Con, one of the biggest comic book conventions in Texas. I must say it was pretty cool. I go to shows like this every once in a while but this one just keeps getting bigger and better. They estimated that somewhere around 60,000 people showed up over the three day period. That's a lot of people. Most of them were nerds too...not that it's a bad thing. Grownups who read comic books and dress up in super hero costumes are still cool in their own way. I saw a lot of people in costumes too. This show also had quite a few famous actors, artists and celebrities in attendance meeting the fans and signing autographs. Captain Kirk was there along with seven other cast members from Star Trek :The Next Generation. There were also people from Nightmare on Elm Street, The Walking Dead and Serenity which is quickly becoming one of my favorite movies. I drew some posters so I could get some of the people to autograph them. I'm going to post some of them here just so y'all can see what I waste my time doing when I'm in the truck waiting to get loaded or unloaded or stuck in a huge traffic jam. Here is a poster I made for The Walking Dead. Here's one I did for the Serenity movie. Here is a picture of me with Summer Glau, the actress who played River Tam in the movie. Here is a poster for Star Trek TNG. They had quite a few Trek people there and I managed to get a lot of autographs. And here is a poster for the original Star Trek series. William Shatner was at the show and signed it for me. I didn't get to speak to him much because there were a lot of people waiting and he was in a hurry but it was still cool meeting him. I'm hoping to meet some of the other Star Trek people in the future so I can add a few more signatures to it. Here is a poster I made for Nightmare on Elm Street. Robert Englund, who played Freddie Kruger in the movie signed it and drew the little Freddie Cartoon. I did the color drawing in the center. I also had my photo taken with Heather Langenkamp, who played Nancy in Nightmare on Elm Street. Unfortunately my darned computer does not want to post it for some reason. Stupid computer. The last drawing I made was of Alice Cooper, one of the legends of rock music. He was there at the show also. All of the celebrities there were very nice and friendly and I really enjoyed meeting them. I'm already looking forward to next year's show.
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Post by auntym on May 21, 2014 11:57:23 GMT -6
WOW...WOW...WOW... i'm so envious...it sounds like you had a great time...
i heard shatner is rude when one approaches him for an autograph, but, at the comic con affair i'm sure he gave it up willingly... next stop put your sights on NIMOY... i'm told he's easy...
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Post by skywalker on May 21, 2014 15:03:25 GMT -6
They had little tables and booths set up for the celebrities to sign autographs. People had to pay a fee to get some of them which is kind of a bummer but that's the way it is nowadays. Everything is about money. I would love to get Mr. Spock's auto but I don't know if he goes to conventions anymore. I haven't seen him appear at one in a long time. I'm always keeping my eyes open though.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2014 15:41:48 GMT -6
Great posters, Sky! (I'm wondering if you just "took a spin" with Summer. You look a little glassy-eyed or dizzy, and she's really smiling and her necklace is eskew )
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Post by skywalker on May 21, 2014 17:58:14 GMT -6
OMG! I wish! Actually I look like a zombie because I had been standing on my feet for 8 hours trying to get all those autographs. I felt like I had just ran two marathons. It was worth it though. Summer is a cutie.
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