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Continuing The Set
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I Visited Gallery Mint Museum
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A Closer Look At One Cherry
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Doin' A Little Cherry Pickin'
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Xtreme Pièce De Caprice
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[ What would happen if...? ]
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Mission Accomplished!
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Honest Mom... I Never Touched It!
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1995 Annual GMM 1.5oz 40.4mm Medal
- #482 of 500
Overstruck With 2001 Hobo Token Mule
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Continuing The Set
These two counterstruck 1995 GMM Annual Medals have expand my set to four
pieces which are a 2000, two 2001 and a 2002 now. The "extra" 2001 specimen
was created with the 2001 Indian obverse and the Walking Hobo reverse.
That is the one I showed you quite recently on Page38 in SBsubject
Link:I Wish I Had Thought Of Doing That.
I may decide to offer it on eBay since it is a rare and unique specimen.
Perhaps selling it might help me pay for having GMM continue my set. How
come I keep hauling all the money I get down to Arkansas and giving it
to TheGuys? PostScript- If you want to take a peek at the 2000
piece in the set I showed it to you on Page15 in SBsubject
Link:Momentarily Unique 1995 Annual GMM Medal.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
1995 Annual GMM 1.5oz 40.4mm Medal
- #345 of 500
Overstruck With 2002 Hobo Token Mule
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2000 "I Visited GMM" Tokens
Struck sandwiched around an 1982 Lincoln Cent.
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2000 "I Visited GMM" Token
Struck on planchet with large circular clip.
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I Visited Gallery Mint Museum
Whenever folks make the effort to visit Eureka Springs TheGuys are really
pleased to show them their wonderful facility. This includes their
mobile-mint that they leave set up to strike tokens with this "I Visited"
reverse die. They didn't make a 2001 obverse die so they continued using
this 2000 die. Ron said he is planning on using the 2002 Uncle Sam obverse
die, that was used with the 2002 FUN reverse die in Florida this year, for
GMM's "I Visited" tokens in 2002. I showed you that Uncle Sam die as the
bottom illustration in SBsubject
Link:Uncle Sam Is Really Popular This Year.
You can tell from the above two illustrations that folks who visit TheGuys
in Eureka Springs love to "play" with the mobile-mint. I have to hand it
to the collector who carried an "I Visited" token (shown below) to the
2000 ANA show in Philadelphia and had it overstruck with the show token
for that convention. I am assuming TheGuys wouldn't have taken their "I
Visited" reverse die with them to that show but I don't know that to be a
fact. GMM's table is always swamped with folks wanting show tokens and I
can't see them taking time to switch dies twice to make this unusual
specimen for a customer... but anything is possible I reckon.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
2000 ANA Philadelphia
Show Token
Struck over a 2000 "I Visited GMM" Token.
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A Closer Look At One Cherry
I got my large planchet 1796 $1... a real
nice piece. Diameter of 40.5mm and weight 26.9gms. I'll need to
measure and weigh a regular piece for comparison. Attached is a
photo of the dollar, plus a couple close-ups of some identifying
die marks. These same die characteristics appear on the clashed
die piece, only a wee bit less prominent, as should be expected.
I'm having lots of fun with the magnifying lens on my camera!
Clifford Bolling...Tue, 26 Feb 2002 05:55:53
I think it is interesting how much difference there is in appearance
between the photograph shown immediately below and the same coin
shown at the top the previous SBsubject that was photographed by Mark.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
A Clifford Bolling photograph.
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A Mark Honea photograph.
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Doin' A Little Cherry Pickin'
Cliff keeps a sharp eye out for GMM dollars with different die
combinations. Here are four pieces he found recently... the first
cherry is an experimental strike 1796 dollar from the Hardcastle
hoard and is a most unusual and rare fine.
This is a Gallery Mint Museum COPY of the 1796
Draped Bust Silver Dollar. When the Gallery Mint began producing these
copies, they experimented with the diameters of the Silver planchets,
using some that were larger in diameter, and some that were smaller. This
piece was struck on one of the larger planchets, resulting in a very wide
area at the rim and denticles. As with all Gallery Mint products, this is
struck on a planchet of the original specifications (.8924+ Pure Silver),
and using the same technology as that available to the early U.S. Mint
(i.e., on a Screw Press). Beautiful Uncirculated! Mark Honea...Thu,
7 Feb 2002 16:07:35
Next a second cherry, another 1796 dollar, was struck using one of my
favorite GMM dies. The reverse die is the small letter proof die that
was converted to an uncirculated die. I am really jealous of Cliff's
good fortune.
A Clifford Bolling photograph.
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The third cherry is ANOTHER 1796 dollar struck using the small letter
reverse that Cliff acquired a while back. I think he is going to
corner the market on these wonderful small letter reverse creations.
A Clifford Bolling photograph.
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And finally the fourth cherry, is from an unfinished set of 1796 dollar dies
that was modified to create the 1996 Christmas present Ron presented to the
friends of the Gallery Mint at that time. It is also an exceptionally rare
piece since only 85 pieces were struck. GMM was just getting started so
their special friends list was rather short. They couldn't afford a similar
generous gesture here some six years later because they have too many
friends now.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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1796 Draped Bust Dollar
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Xtreme Pièce De Caprice
My ScrapBook fans are starting to complain about there being no new
SBsubjects as of late. It seems like my life outside of hyperspace is
starting to compete with generating material for these webpages.
:-(
I just came in high bidder on this interesting specimen on eBay and I
can hardly wait to receive it. I know it is a manufactured error and not
a production error but it still interests me because I know that TheGuys
purchase their dollar blanks ready-made. So... they had to cut out the
"clip" somehow at their facility. I am wondering if the clip even has the
correct curvature to simulate a production error.
As you know... I'm not a fan of pièces de caprice but this one is certainly
flashy and extreme so I couldn't resist. Besides the price was right!
I'm betting I paid considerably less that it sold for originally at GMM.
I don't know how Fred Weinberg came by this creation but I'd guess he got
it as part of a collection he purchased otherwise it wouldn't have been
offered on eBay at such a "fire sale" price.
Cliff agrees with me that this set of dies is not in Czapla and is
a later creation. He has this same die pair used to strike a sample
dollar coin strip of 1794, 1796 and 1804 dies. If you have a GMM
ScrapBook CD-ROM then you can view Cliff's picture of his
Link:dollar strip 1796 dollar.
When I saw this extreme creation I was reminded of a similar COOL piece
that Cliff Bolling recently acquired. This is a good time to show it to
you. In this case the clipped planchet could have been a natural error
since TheGuys produce their own cent planchets. Obviously this piece
being struck was clearly intentional and not an error.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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A Clifford Bolling photograph.
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What would happen if...?
If... I were silly enough to send a BillZach hobo nickel carving off to
Bert Hickman to be magneformed? Bert says nickels do not shrink as well
as other coins so we could expect a 21.2mm nickel to only shrink to
18.2mm... just a hair larger than a dime which is 17.9mm. Still... a hobo
nickel carving the size of a dime would be COOL I think! Only I just can't
talk myself into sacrificing one of Bill's wonderful carvings... not even
the practice piece shown below. This carving didn't measure up to Bill's
high standards necessary to get his signature on the reverse. Silly me...
I think it is a great carving. Shows you how little I know! Do you see the
similarity to Bill's latest "IndianJoe" carving in this practice carving?
I certainly do.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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Magneformed
BillZach Practice Carving - 85.9% of original
Just a mockup folks ... don't get excited!
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BillZach's "IndianJoe" Z#82
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Ron Landis MockUp
Concept graphic by the FatMan.
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Ron Landis MockUp
Concept graphic by the FatMan.
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Ron Landis Carving
As seen through the talent of Bill Zach!
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Mission Accomplished!
I've been working on this project for roughly a year. Joe Rust couldn't
find the profile shots of Ron that were taken a long time ago. Then Ron
couldn't find them either. So we tried taking a picture with Ron's neat
digital camera and managed to break it somehow... I was touching it but
I swear that I didn't do anything to it. :-( This
last trip I took my own photographer and got a whole series of pictures
of Ron which I immediately sent to Bill (Jameson) Zach. You can see the
whole series in SBsubject
Link:Visiting With The Master.
This WONDERFUL BillZach carving represents the project's successful
culmination and has been presented to Ron Landis for his personal
collection but I wanted to share Bill's talent with all of you.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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Magneformed
1796 GMM Liberty Cap Cent
28.47mm reduced to 23.04mm
- 80.9% of original
resulting from being subjected to 4500 Joules.
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Honest Mom... I Never Touched It!
My corresponding friend Mike Wallace pointed out to me some shrunken
coins being offered on eBay and wanted my opinion about them. I
didn't have a clue... which seems to me my normal state more and more as
I grow older ...so I followed links until I found this website...
Link:StoneRidge Engineering.
As I have said many times before... it is a rare day that I go to bed
not having learned something brand new. My first impression was that the
idea of shrinking coins without even touching them must be some sort of
a scam. It didn't take long reading Bert Hickman's website pages until
they turned on the lights for me. I found
Link:Making
Small Change particularly enlightening... no pun intended.
You should take the time to read it!
Mike and I think these shrunken coins are really COOL!
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"Make ONE mistake, and you'll
get NO SECOND CHANCE!"
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Coin shrinking uses a technique called high
velocity electromagnetic metal forming, or "Magneforming". This
technique was originally developed by the aerospace industry, and
has been popularized by Aerovox, Grumman, and Maxwell. It involves
discharging a high energy capacitor bank through a work coil to
generate a very powerful, rapidly changing magnetic field which then
"forms" the metal to be fabricated.
Blasted by powerful magnetic fields that cause solid metal to flow
like taffy, these coins are truly unique objects! Each coin required
it's own hand wound work coil which was explosively destroyed during
the shrinking process. Currents of over 100,000 amperes were typically
forced into the coil, creating an extremely powerful pulsed magnetic
field. This induced a circulating current in the coin that can exceed
a million amperes! The tremendous magnetic fields of the coil and coin
oppose each other, causing the work coil to explode with the force of
a small bomb, while the coin is radially compressed to a fraction of
its original size! It's all over in 20-25 millionths of a second! The
only thing touching and shaping the coin is the invisible magnetic
field itself! The coin's weight and density are unaltered - it simply
becomes smaller in diameter and a bit thicker.
EMail:Bert Hickman
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Magneformed
1979-D SBA Dollar
26.50mm reduced to 21.34mm - 80.5% of original
resulting from being subjected to 5700 Joules.
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Magneformed
2000-D Sacagawea Dollar
26.54mm reduced to 21.34mm - 79.4% of original
resulting from being subjected to 5700 Joules.
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Mike and I particularly like the shrunken small dollars. They end up
the size of a nickel. Check out Bert's offerings at
Link:Shrunken Coins are now Available!
and buy a couple. You won't regret it... I PROMISE!
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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Experimenting With Website Search Engines
I've spent WAY TOO MUCH time trying to learn about search engines, spiders
and such. These three different mechanisms seem to work sometimes and
other times not. Simply reclicking the search button on a failed search
will normally succeed, albeit sometimes only after several attempts.
Perhaps it is a matter of traffic on the search server. Google depends on
the index it already has generated and does not generate one specifically
for the GMM ScrapBook website. PicoSearch appears to have more going for
it than FreeFind but I am not prepared to add any of these search engine
to every GMM ScrapBook webpage yet. I am still learning.
EMail:Verne R. Walrafen
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