From Artwork to coin or medal

[Twoshadows]

I think I have the silver version of the Mona Lisa but would have to do some digging to turn it up. Don't remember the mintage on the silver euro but did like the design. Isn't it awful to be so old that one doesn't remember what he owns?

[Paint Your Wagon]

I scan everything to be sure what I have and do not have
I thought I nearly bought the coronation of napoleon twice and on looking at my computer I found out that the coin on offer was the coronation of Josephine which I did not have . So when the mail arrives I will have Josephine as well

[Paint Your Wagon]

The painting is by David ( never heard of the painter ) It is a very large painting and intresting
It shows all the family of Napoleon Ist and what is more important the pope is in the painting happy to keep his head and not allowed to stand or do anything . Napoloen Ist himself is crowning his first wife Josephine de Beauharnais a widow with two children. After a few years she will be divorced cause she gave no children to napoleon and surprise surprise the vatican is happy to annul their mariage and in comes Marie Louiese de Parme
Since Napoleon was banned after loosing the battle of Waterloo in Belgium in 1815 she became Duchess of Parma and Napoleon II died at the age of 6 .

[Paint Your Wagon]

I got the coin with certificate and original box for 3% over melt .

[humpybong]

Now that is what I call a good buy PYW.

You have some very great looking coins in your collection.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Thank you
The days I paid double or more above melt are 3 years gone when gold was 300 euro an ounce (it is 580 today)
In the summer period many vendors make the mistake of putting a coin up without minimum starting price and I constantly bottomfish
Monnaie de Paris had one hell of a designer cum striking team .
This is from the 1993 Louvre Art series

[Paint Your Wagon]

All these coins have the same reverse with 100 F or 500 F on it
On this one the green you see at the bottom is my new scanner breaking up in rainbow colors since it got a led illumination
which is bad for proofs I think
I still have to restart my photographic tests but I could have photoshopped the green out by the burning tool
but since it is really not obstructive I did not bother

[Paint Your Wagon]

I will take the liberty of counting fairy tales as works of art

Message from Cinderella to Fanny and Freddy
It is ten to twelve and soon you will be a pumpkin and 6 blind mice again

[Paint Your Wagon]

Il était une fois .........dans un pays lointain

[RenaL]

Once upon a time, in a country far away


The Danish have some fairy tale coins as well.
The serie depicts scenes from famous tales of Hans Christian Andersen

The Ugly Duckling:


The Little Mermaid


The Shadow


The Snow Queen


The nightingale

[Paint Your Wagon]

Beautifull series

I have the book by Anderson but only remember the ugly ducklin and the girl with the "matches"

I also have the Grimm Brothers book

[Paint Your Wagon]

Mozart Opera the Magic Flute

I just got Friedberg goldcoins 2002 and this coin and am allready disappointed
Better quality of pictures but less complete then Krause
Quotes this coin at 38% over melt
Well I got it at 2% over melt
Does not even mention San Marino sets and at least Krause has SOME
Does not have the piedfort and teststrikes I got either
I guess I now have to buy a French catalogue

[Yass]

I had to study the Flemish and Dutch masters
He reminded me of Breughel
Paintings crowded with little people

Garden

Where's Wally?

[Paint Your Wagon]

Sorry Yass
I don't understand the question but I sense there must be a joke in there . Crocodille Dundee's Wally ?

[Paint Your Wagon]

I never saw the opera the Magic Flute
but got a synopsis

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