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My other hobby is astronomy. Searching the web for "space coins" all that comes up is some silly looking coin commemorating the Apollo missions. There should be a galaxy coin, a neutron star coin, and a hubble 1 oz fine silver coin! I am tired of looking at profiles of old dead politicians.  |
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I agree when it comes to portraiture on coins, I've never found it particularly interesting. My favorite designs have always been more representational, like the shield on Shield nickels and 2 cent pieces, the star on 3 cent pieces, and to an extent some of the liberty portraits. I have hope that with the new ATB Quarter series we may start to see less portraiture on coins. Whenever I flipped a coin as a kid I always called tails, it was just more interesting, I also love seeing animals on coins, like the Buffalo nickel and Flying Eagle cent. |
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Tired of looking at dead politicians eh?, come to Canada, you can look at pictures of dead and living royals. At least in america the person varies from denomination.
Feel free to call me Will.
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06/10/2014 12:14 am
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lol! thedollarman has a point
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Tired of looking at dead politicians eh?, come to Canada, you can look at pictures of dead and living royals. At least in america the person varies from denomination.  , especially when the same monarch has been on coins for over 60 years! lol |
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we have animals in Australia and some very nice ones
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Hey scottk  from another astronomy nut. I don't collect space coins specifically (by topic). There are so many space stamp topicals, I decided not to collect the stamps, true not as many space or astronomy coin as stamps, there are still quite a few of them. My other hobby is astrophotography, which I have not got much done this year yet, due to cruddy weather. I am shipping one of our telescopes of to Australia in hopes of having better skies there (Siding Springs at iTelescopes.net). Here is the telescope in question taking the trip: https://goccf.com/t/123667#1086394And one of my best images (shot with a 32" telescope - twice as big as the one in my photo) under great skies in Arizona. https://goccf.com/t/120308Quote:
There is also a southern sky version with a more purple coloration, and it is domed. Definitely an interesting coin! I have been wanting to get one of the Southern Sky coins to add to my collection. Also I'm attracted to the Polish Fortuna coin with the constellations on it. http://news.coinupdate.com/mint-of-...l-coin-1854/scottk - keep your eyes peeled there are a lot of astronomy and space coins from all over the world, I think it would make for a great collection to exhibit at a coin show too.  "Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440Edited by westcoin
06/10/2014 06:15 am
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Hey Westcoin. I wish I could see those pics. I guess they're in the general discussion forum? I tried to "opt in" to that forum a couple weeks ago, but never got a response. Interesting cylindrical coins though.
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So many complaints about who is on our US coins. I wonder how many people actually mention this to our government. I wonder too how many send letters, emails, etc. to the US Mints. I too would like anything on our coins that doesn't remind me of death. And too with so much available today from space, why not something on coins about what is out there. Now an example of something for a coin would be a black hole. Problem is if that is on the Obverse, would there be a Reverse?  OR how about our Sun on one side and the Moon on the other side? And if your into Astronomy, have you tried "Astronomy picture of the Day. It's a NASA web site. Some great ideas for our coins. |
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Yeah, I really wanted a neutron star coin to keep as a pocket piece- you flip it, and it goes straight through the ground, all the way to China, then it pops back up right in front of you again.
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scottk - Contact a moderator to help if you can, there are a lot of great discussions there. Maybe a fluke that your opt-in was not processed. You have over 50 posts now, should be okay to join.
"Buy the Book Before You Buy the Coin" - Aaron R. Feldman - "And read it" - Me 2013! ANA Life Member #3288 in good standing since 1981, ANS, Early American Coppers Member (EAC), Colonial Coin Collectors Club member (C4), Conder Token Collector Club member (CTCC), Civil War Token Society (CWTS) member, Liberty Seated Collectors Club (LSCC) & Numismatic Bibliomania Society member (NBS), USMex, Member in good standing, 2¢ variety collector. See my want page: http://goccf.com/t/140440 |
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scottk, you have General Discussion access now. 
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I guess they're in the general discussion forum? I tried to "opt in" to that forum a couple weeks ago, but never got a response. They are. And I don't know what happened to your original request, but I've just added you to to the GD forum now. As for your original question: I suppose the main reason why astronomical objects don't appear more often on coinage is that the celestial objects themselves don't belong to any particular nation, so no national government or mint is going to see the point in commemorating them on their coinage. You'll have to rely on places like Perth Mint, Pobjoy Mint, Sunshine Mint and friends to make astro-themed coinage. While the objects themselves usually don't get a mention by themselves since they don't belong to a country, the astronomers that discovered them can be claimed by countries; so sometimes the objects appear alongside their discoverers on the coins and banknotes. Another problem with drawing space objects on coins is that most of them are, well, spherical. Round, just like the coin itself. When you depict them on coinage, especially if you aren't going to resort to fancy colorization technology and stick to the traditional monochrome coinage artwork, they'd all look pretty much the same. Edit to add: I think jbuck and I submitted your name to the GD forum at the same time.  Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Ok. Thanks for that Sap ans jbuck.
Sap, if what you say is the case -countries having no claim to astronomical objects, I think we should just begin claiming them by minting them on our coins, and let the pieces fall where the may...
"Saturn, a U.S. territory since 2014".
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