Today I Received.....

[auleAboutNumismatics]

Sydney mint type II sovereign with very nice portrait from Leonard Charles Wyon. I think this portrait is used only in the Australia sovereign (?)

Common date but with very nice yellow gold cartwheel lustre..

 

[Petra]

32 minutes ago, auleAboutNumismatics said:

Sydney mint type II sovereign with very nice portrait from Leonard Charles Wyon. I think this portrait is used only in the Australia sovereign (?)

Common date but with very nice yellow gold cartwheel lustre..

 

Looks great!

[Silverlocks]

3 hours ago, auleAboutNumismatics said:

Sydney mint type II sovereign with very nice portrait from Leonard Charles Wyon. I think this portrait is used only in the Australia sovereign (?)

Common date but with very nice yellow gold cartwheel lustre..

 

Yes, it is.  The wreath in Victoria's hair is Banksia, which is a plant native to Australia.  This portrait was done specifically for the Australia sovs.  When they went to making ordinary sovs in Oz in 1872 they switched to Wyon's normal young head portrait.

[Britannia47]

5 hours ago, auleAboutNumismatics said:

Sydney mint type II sovereign with very nice portrait from Leonard Charles Wyon. I think this portrait is used only in the Australia sovereign (?)

Common date but with very nice yellow gold cartwheel lustre..

 

It’s worth noting that the first Victoria design on the ‘Australia’ sovereign by James Wyon - a cousin of William Wyon, was deemed to be a bit of a failure. It only lasted 2 years 1855 & 1856 when Leonard Wyon was ordered to change it.

To me her profile on the 1855 looks a bit ‘waspish’ and was much improved by LC Wyons version.

 

[JamesH]

Some nice looking YV shield sovereigns to add to the collection 

[Petra]

47 minutes ago, Britannia47 said:

It’s worth noting that the first Victoria design on the ‘Australia’ sovereign by James Wyon - a cousin of William Wyon, was deemed to be a bit of a failure. It only lasted 2 years 1855 & 1856 when Leonard Wyon was ordered to change it.

To me her profile on the 1855 looks a bit ‘waspish’ and was much improved by LC Wyons version.

 

Looks like he was tempted to gothic with her profile!😮🤔

[Simmoleon]

18 hours ago, Sovhead said:

I’ve got an 1860 shield Sov from the “Uvedale collection” NGC MS61 I’m bursting to crack open 🤣🤣

It looks very dull but in nice condition it needs cleaned PROPERLY and a couple of copper spots removed.

It just annoys me the way it looks but when  I think of the way it COULD look.

Can we see it?

[Silverlocks]

My new pocket piece, a 100g Germania silver bar

[Silverlocks]

2023 Bird of Paradise Prooflike finish but not the best minting.  The artist also needs to learn a bit about how to kern text on a path.

Edited October 3, 2023 by Silverlocks

[Silverlocks]

2023 Perth Mint Legends Dragon & Koi

2022 Perth Mint Legends Phoenix

Bonus 2021 Perth Mint Legends Dragon

 

 

[Gruff]

3 hours ago, Silverlocks said:

My new pocket piece, a 100g Germania silver bar

Hope the stitching is solid! 

[Aldebaran]

7 hours ago, Silverlocks said:

2023 Bird of Paradise Prooflike finish but not the best minting.  The artist also needs to learn a bit about how to kern text on a path.

Can you explain ‘kern the text on the path’ and why the artist needs to learn more 🌞🌞

[GoldDiggerDave]

A stunning TSF designed and branded 1g silver bar from @BackyardBullion big thanks to @ChrisSilverfor all the hard work for keeping this forum running and putting up with some of our antics!  
 

 

[Sovhead]

18 hours ago, Simmoleon said:

Can we see it?

Copper spot on reverse, but the obverse is really dirty but in lovely condition, when it was slabbed it should have been conserved first might have got it a higher grade.

[Silverlocks]

2 hours ago, Aldebaran said:

Can you explain ‘kern the text on the path’ and why the artist needs to learn more 🌞🌞

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning

The text 'PAPUA NEW GUINEA' and '1 KINA' is badly kerned.  When the text isn't on a straight line, it's often a fiddle to get the kerning right in applications like Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw.  In extreme cases you may need to tweak or adjust the rotation of the individual letter forms. This looks like someone's done this with a graphics application but not gotten the kerning right.

I think they would have been better off using smaller type and much more letter spacing, like the inscription on a sovereign.  You can also see on the dollaridoos below it, there is more letter spacing in the inscription.

Edited October 4, 2023 by Silverlocks

[paulmerton]

21 minutes ago, Silverlocks said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning

The text 'PAPUA NEW GUINEA' and '1 KINA' is badly kerned.  When the text isn't on a straight line, it's often a fiddle to get the kerning right in applications like Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw.  In extreme cases you may need to tweak or adjust the rotation of the individual letter forms. This looks like someone's done this with a graphics application but not gotten the kerning right.

I think they would have been better off using smaller type and much more letter spacing, like the inscription on a sovereign.  You can also see on the dollaridoos below it, there is more letter spacing in the inscription.

Gotta hate bad keming.

[Aldebaran]

2 hours ago, Silverlocks said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning

The text 'PAPUA NEW GUINEA' and '1 KINA' is badly kerned.  When the text isn't on a straight line, it's often a fiddle to get the kerning right in applications like Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw.  In extreme cases you may need to tweak or adjust the rotation of the individual letter forms. This looks like someone's done this with a graphics application but not gotten the kerning right.

I think they would have been better off using smaller type and much more letter spacing, like the inscription on a sovereign.  You can also see on the dollaridoos below it, there is more letter spacing in the inscription.

Thank you @Silverlocks I did notice that the lettering was disproportionate and detracts from the image 🌞

[Petra]

Oh no! More silver🤔 looks good though 🤔😮

[Silverlocks]

9 minutes ago, Aldebaran said:

Thank you @Silverlocks I did notice that the lettering was disproportionate and detracts from the image 🌞

It is a bit rough in other ways - for example, the baselines of the I an N in GUINEA don't quite line up.  The way that applications like Illustrator and Corel Draw work make this a bit of a fiddle.  Sometimes you have to convert the text to curves and frig with the outlines directly.  The process is more forgiving if you have more letter spacing.

Source: I used to work as a typesetter about 30 years ago.  The software hasn't changed all that much and still works on the same basic principle.

Edited October 4, 2023 by Silverlocks

[Silverlocks]

2 minutes ago, Petra said:

Oh no! More silver🤔 looks good though 🤔😮

An older dollaridoo with a Maklouf portrait - very nice.  Is this one RAM?

[James32]

1 minute ago, Silverlocks said:

An older dollaridoo with a Maklouf portrait - very nice.  Is this one RAM?

No it's a kangaroo  😬 

[Silverlocks]

1 minute ago, James32 said:

No it's a kangaroo  😬 

[Silverlocks]

2023 Silver Kookaburra

Bonus 2022 Kookaburra

 

[Simmoleon]

7 hours ago, Sovhead said:

Copper spot on reverse, but the obverse is really dirty but in lovely condition, when it was slabbed it should have been conserved first might have got it a higher grade.

Yep conservation is an option and I suspect would add even more eye appeal to this but it’s a very very nice coin regardless. 

[Tav]